Ecobank Sent 100 Managers By Road To Lome

TOP 100 MANAGERS' ORDEAL: A SHAME ON ECOBANK NIGERIA!

Ecobank Nigeria yesterday displayed a show of shame when it transported its Top 100 Manager from Lagos, Nigeria to Lome, Togo by road.

1. Ecobank is an ECOWAS-spread bank with branches across West Africa.

2. Recently, it made a decision to identify and specially empower (by training) its TOP 100 PERFORMING BRANCH MANAGERS (out of over 500 branches in West Africa) in Togo, their regional Head Office.

3. About 60 of these Top 100 performing managers are from Nigeria, and as seen as those who are responsible for over 80% of the bank’s income/profitability

4. Ecobank decided to transport its best staff to Togo for a special training by Road, rather than by Air, thereby risking the lives of their best Managers;

5. To ‘add salt to injury,’ Ecobank rather than employ the services of top-rated road transport companies like ABC to convey her staff to Lome, Togo, chose to convey them via 2 (two) rickety Ecobank staff buses;

6. Around 1pm yesterday (Sunday, July 7th 2013), one of the Ecobank staff buses broke down, leaving Ecobank best hands in the middle of nowhere along Badagry;

7. The staff were asked to wait while another staff bus, which was never serviced/prepared for a long journey, was arranged to the scene towards Badagry.

8. As a result, Ecobank Nigeria Top 100 got to Lome by 1.20am the following day (i.e. today, MONDAY!);

9. Of course, a lot of the staff must have developed cramps from the long, terrible road journey.

10. Other countries flew their staff to Lome, but Ecobank Nigeria chose to ‘trek’ with their staff;

11. All the Top Management Staff who travel out of the country, always do so with First-class air ticket.

12. And lastly, it was learnt that, some of the staff offered to pay for their own air ticket to Togo (considering the risk), but the bank pressured them to go as a “team.”


Now, the questions are:

a) Is this how a company—let alone a bank—should treat their best Managers/staff?

b) Why would Ecobank not spend a paltry N40,000 to transport her best Managers by air?

c) What if there was a fatal accident, since road transport is largely not as safe as Air transport?

d) And what if they were attacked by hoodlums (some of the staff are ladies, pretty ladies I mean)

e) Did Ecobank not realize that these people were the ones generating the major chunk of their revenue/profitability before treating them this way?

f) Were they going on a secondary school kind of excursion?

g) Do this people value lives of at all?—Let alone those of their best hands?

h) ...etc


Is this act not condemnable? As Nigerians, we should learn to condemn evil because we do not know where it will ‘berth’ the next day.