Dangote Group Sacks Driver After He Sustained Broken Ribs While On Duty, Abandons Him To His Fate

A truck driver with Dangote Cement, identified as Anas Ibrahim, has taken legal action against the company for allegedly neglecting and sacking him after he sustained life-threatening injuries while on duty.

According to FIJ, on July 1, 2020, Ibrahim was travelling along the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway after offloading bags of cement at the company’s depot, when a vehicle ran into the Dangote truck he was driving. 

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 It was gathered that the driver was first taken to the Sango Otta General Hospital in Ogun State after losing consciousness, then transferred to the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, and later, to Mohammed Sunusi Specialist Hospital, Kano, where he is presently. 

Ibrahim, via his lawyer, dragged Dangote Cement to the National Industrial Court of Nigeria in Kano, while claiming that he suffered three broken ribs and a complex fracture on his limbs. 

 The driver told the court that the company abandoned him and refused to settle his medical bills after they sacked him. 

 He sought an order of the court, asking Dangote to pay him N50 million as compensation, N10m as exemplary damages and N1 million as legal fee. 

When contacted, Anthony Chiejina, the Dangote Group’s spokesperson, told FIJ that he could not comment on Ibrahim’s case because he was still mourning the death of Sani Dangote, the Vice President of the company who had passed away in November. Chiejina said it was unfair for newspapers to report the sack and abandonment of the driver while they were in mourning. He also said that most of the drivers working with the company can't be trusted adding that some sell the company's trucks and disappear. 

 “I told Ja’afar (the journalist that broke the news); I said it is very unfair. We’re still mourning. We lost our Vice President. Everybody is in a mourning mood,” he told FIJ. “Aliko’s younger brother died. Don’t you know? 

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 “Let me give just one example. One guy from Punch said one of our drivers was missing; he brought the picture of the driver and the grandmother weeping. I told him to just hold on and said these drivers are very funny people. 

 “Some of them sell our trucks and disappear. Not only trucks, but they also sell our goods. So when they start running after them, they say all sorts of things,” he said.