Telecommunication
services provider, Rutotech International, has distanced itself from a
demonstration that took place at the Abuja office of 9Mobile (formerly Etisalat
Nigeria) on Monday morning.
Some miscreants
who had staged the protest at the 9Mobile office, had blamed the company, who
had recently restructured for their plight.
Reacting
to the development however, Rutotech, in a statement by its spokesperson,
Akindolapo Samuel, said it knew nothing about the protest.
The
company explained that following the well-known problems of Etisalat, the
company had to put on hold some of its ongoing contracts including the one
being executed by Rutotech.
It
said since the contract had been temporarily put on hold, it also had to let
some staff members go in the interim but with the assurance that they would be
recalled once work resumed.
Rutotech
therefore distanced itself from the protest, stating that it would never
embarrass any of its esteemed clients.
The
company’s statement read in part: “Following the restructuring and takeover of
Etisalat by 9Mobile, due to some financial crisis, some of their operations
were affected leading to the scaling down of some of our staff as a temporal
measure to restructure our operations.
“The
16 affected staff members have been put on hold temporarily for future
redeployment. The demonstration which took place in Abuja was orchestrated by
some miscreants who are not staff ototech but who want to paint us in bad light
in the eyes of our esteemed clients. There are over 280 staff members who have
not been affected and are working at various locations for our clients.”
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