Jumia staff dies on the job…the raw story
A Jumia Nigeria employee and fan of Stelladimokokorkus’ blog shared the following story with her. She posted it online. Another Jumia employee confirmed to NewsroomNG “everything you’re reading in that article is true.” Stella gave us the green light to repost the raw article here.
“Hello Stella,
Please please please keep my identity anonymous.
I am a staff of Jumia Nigeria and you need to know what is going on in this slave trade company.
People work in the worst working environment ever. Staff being kept in the warehouse where the working condition killed a staff in the office yesterday 08/02/2016. His name is Ola, set to marry his pregnant fiancée next month.
The warehouse is extremely hot, very unbearable, they make staff work for 12 hours straight without sitting down. How do you let people stand packing and processing items in a hot warehouse for 12 hours? And the pay is so small but you know people have basic needs and responsibilities then they take up these jobs.
READ: “Another Jumia staff will collapse and die soon” – employee
The government needs to do something about this because this company is here to use people and kill them. No more health insurance, they cut down the health insurance whereby you can only treat headache in the hospital and that is it. They cut down salaries and other benefits.
Meanwhile the expats live in N70 million house in Ikoyi, Lekki, V.I. with salaries from N2.5 million and all. They live the lives of the rich Nigerians, come to work, cannot perform and let the locals do all the work. Then the locals end up dead! A staff died on his way to Lagos from our Port Harcourt office while bringing items to Lagos, imagine them sending an email to the whole staff to donate money for his family. Why can’t the company pay the family why ask is donate…if you can afford to live in N70 million house?
We need our government to fight for us, it is becoming unbearable. How can a warehouse not have health and safety rules and training for staff? No sickbay, No first aid. That guy would have survived yesterday if there was a first aid. He was simply gasping for breath and died before he got to Isalu hospital, barely 10 minutes from the warehouse off Acme road.
Nigerians please help us! Government please help us!
There are no jobs out there and these ones are killing people!
– Scorned staff of Jumia Nigeria.”
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