According to a National Daily Newspaper,a 7 month pregnant factory worker was beaten Lebanese by her Employer to the state that she lost her pregnancy
Workers in Lagos based packaging and printing company Toppan Packaging Company Limited located on Ladipo Oluwole in Ikeja Industrial Estate could not believe what they witnessed on Friday December 13th,2013
When the shift mamnager ,a Lebanese,Kaveh Noine beat up the Cleaning Unit Supervisor,Mrs Alice Ossai in their presence,due to what he deemed grouse negligence on her part,as a portion of the factory is littered with dirt and she failed in her responsibility to get her team to keep the factory spic and span.Frantic efforts by Ossai to explain why the portion was littered with dirt, even Noine after she was assaulted was rebuffed by Noine who shouted her down and asked her to come with him to his office fuming with rage;exasperated staff members on duty went in with Ossai in a bid to collectively expalin the supposed duty breach. Noine rained blows on Ossai and kicking her repeatedly,without sparing her tummy even though she was seven months pregnant.
Like many Nigerians working under similar conditions,she took everything calmly even though she compained to her friends that she was in deep pain,she put up a bold face and continued with her duty,bearing the shame and physical assault in her stride all i a bid to secure her job and that of her siblings who also works in the same company.threached e news
However; when the news of her assault reached her two siblings they made an attempt to retaliate on her behalf,Ossai dissuaded them from physically roughing up Noine begging them to consider the financial burden they bear with the twelve thousand naira monthly salary paid each of them,as any attempt to confront Noine will eventually lead to their collective loss of income. a situation they can not cope with giving the fact that they have an aged sick mother to take care of well as other regular and emerging bills to pay
Pregnant Ossai was helped home by some of her co-workers and her siblings tha day;she resumed work the next day a saturday 14th December even as in the pain continued intermittently,even in pains and being pregnant,she carried out her supervisory cleaning assignments in order to save the family income.
On Sunday she rested at home being a work free day,even as the pin increased. she resumed w ork on monday but the pain had increased considerably and she leaned on the mop stick and clutched her stomach.By 10pm on Monday she noticed patches of blood on her underwear,the flow progressed steadily and rapidly into clots of blood dripping out of her.
Family members had to rush her to Glorious Mercy Hospital close to her house where a Ceasarian section was carried out on Ossai,the Medical Director said that Ossai prognosis revealed that the placenta progressively detached from the walls of her uterus,thereby oxygen and other vital nutrients were denied her foetus,in the days after the assault,hence the need to evacuate and save Ossai's life
Efforts by Ossai's family members to arrest Noine yielded no result as he was said to have traveled to Canada on official assignment but National Daily newspapers investigation team discovered that Noine was indee in the office when a detachment of policemen from Lagos Area F Police Command stormed the Oluwole Ladipo office of Toppan Packaging Company to effect his arrest.he hid in one of the disused offices and was later ferried out through the rear gate. Staff members pointedly assert that the police detachment is in collusion with the management as they failed to conduct a thorough even when they were given a tip about his where about.
The victim's family members refused to leave the premises of the company since they were aware that Noine was hiding and that the policemen that came were playing to the gallery.It took a detachment from the State Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) allegedly brought in by the Company's management to forcibly dispersed them on Tuesday the 17th December.
All attempt by National Daily to get an audience with the a\Area F Commander and the investigating Police Officer (IPO) over this incident as at press time proved abortive,but one of the inspectors who was on the failed arrest bid this medium to the Public Relation Uit of the Command at Oduduwa in Ikeja.
The company's Administrative Executive Mr Abass acknowledged the arrest bid and direct incident but adds that the company has settled with the Police and that every enquiry over the matter had been resolved both with the police Several calls made to Ngozi Braide Lagos State Public Relations Officer was not picked or returned.
Sources ay that this is one of the many physical assaults meted out by the said Noine on casual staff members on weekly basis .On Saturday December 7,Noine slapped and kicked one Ayo whom he dismissed from work nd made to forfeit payments and monies due him.\
Elvis Ossai ,Alice's spouse said the fate that befell his wife is quite unfortunate and avoidable.he offered that the officers and men of Lagos Area F command disappointed him over the way and manner they handled investigation into the incident. 'I make bold to say to Nigerians that they connived with the management of Toppan Packaging Company to shield a foreigner who beat up a Nigerian in her own country from facing justice.The assault on my wife led to the loss of seven month pregnant,instead of naming ceremony we just conducted the funeral.We were denied the joy of parenthood juts as we were looking forward to it"Elvis said in an emotional laden voice
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Pregnant Ossai was helped home by some of her co-workers and her siblings tha day;she resumed work the next day a saturday 14th December even as in the pain continued intermittently,even in pains and being pregnant,she carried out her supervisory cleaning assignments in order to save the family income.
On Sunday she rested at home being a work free day,even as the pin increased. she resumed w ork on monday but the pain had increased considerably and she leaned on the mop stick and clutched her stomach.By 10pm on Monday she noticed patches of blood on her underwear,the flow progressed steadily and rapidly into clots of blood dripping out of her.
Family members had to rush her to Glorious Mercy Hospital close to her house where a Ceasarian section was carried out on Ossai,the Medical Director said that Ossai prognosis revealed that the placenta progressively detached from the walls of her uterus,thereby oxygen and other vital nutrients were denied her foetus,in the days after the assault,hence the need to evacuate and save Ossai's life
Efforts by Ossai's family members to arrest Noine yielded no result as he was said to have traveled to Canada on official assignment but National Daily newspapers investigation team discovered that Noine was indee in the office when a detachment of policemen from Lagos Area F Police Command stormed the Oluwole Ladipo office of Toppan Packaging Company to effect his arrest.he hid in one of the disused offices and was later ferried out through the rear gate. Staff members pointedly assert that the police detachment is in collusion with the management as they failed to conduct a thorough even when they were given a tip about his where about.
The victim's family members refused to leave the premises of the company since they were aware that Noine was hiding and that the policemen that came were playing to the gallery.It took a detachment from the State Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) allegedly brought in by the Company's management to forcibly dispersed them on Tuesday the 17th December.
All attempt by National Daily to get an audience with the a\Area F Commander and the investigating Police Officer (IPO) over this incident as at press time proved abortive,but one of the inspectors who was on the failed arrest bid this medium to the Public Relation Uit of the Command at Oduduwa in Ikeja.
The company's Administrative Executive Mr Abass acknowledged the arrest bid and direct incident but adds that the company has settled with the Police and that every enquiry over the matter had been resolved both with the police Several calls made to Ngozi Braide Lagos State Public Relations Officer was not picked or returned.
Sources ay that this is one of the many physical assaults meted out by the said Noine on casual staff members on weekly basis .On Saturday December 7,Noine slapped and kicked one Ayo whom he dismissed from work nd made to forfeit payments and monies due him.\
Elvis Ossai ,Alice's spouse said the fate that befell his wife is quite unfortunate and avoidable.he offered that the officers and men of Lagos Area F command disappointed him over the way and manner they handled investigation into the incident. 'I make bold to say to Nigerians that they connived with the management of Toppan Packaging Company to shield a foreigner who beat up a Nigerian in her own country from facing justice.The assault on my wife led to the loss of seven month pregnant,instead of naming ceremony we just conducted the funeral.We were denied the joy of parenthood juts as we were looking forward to it"Elvis said in an emotional laden voice
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