The Benue Investment and Property Company on Tuesday announced the sack of 44 workers it claimed were redundant.
Alex Adum, its Managing Director, who announced this at his first accountability press briefing in Makurdi, said their employment followed due processes, but “lacked business needs”.
According to Adum, the reduction in the workforce is part of an ongoing restructuring in the company.
He said: “All the affected staff have been redundant; I inherited a total of 204 workers, among those sacked are three Executive Directors and four General Managers.
“In 2016, BIPC had 66 staff; between 2016 and 2019, an additional 150 staff were employed.”
Adums said the company’s monthly wage bill rose to N37 million due to the number of employees.
The Managing Director said he was aware of the criticisms the sack would attract, but declared he was “doing it in good faith and in the interest of Benue”.
He said the company’s shares and assets had hugely depreciated due to misapplication of managerial principles.
He said: “Previous administrations refused to apply sound managerial principles; they made the company a social service extension centre.
“They watched while the company collapsed, and left a lot of liabilities for the government to battle with.”
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