MTN Fires Staff Over Facebook Post On Xenophobia

If an employee of MTN Nigeria had known that a post by his friend he shared on Facebook would land him in a big mess, maybe he would have had a rethink.

As you read this, one of the brilliant members staff of the telecoms giant, Emeka Eze (not real names), has been told to stay far away from work because of his ‘innocent’ post on the popular social media platform.

You will recall that recently, South Africans descended on black foreigners in their country, accusing them of rendering them jobless.

They resorted into attacking and killing foreigners of African origin.

This resulted into Nigerians calling for a boycott of their companies in Nigeria, including MTN, MultiChoice, Shoprite, etc.

Speaking exclusively with PorscheClassy Media, a devastated Eze said,

“This is worst period of my life, because I never knew it would get to this. Now I feel like a criminal under surveillance. It was an innocence Facebook post, but the last paragraph was ‘Lets boycott MTN and DSTV.”

“My organization munched it and made it an issue; thereby I was called by chat#panel. I never knew it was going to be as serious as this. They put me on suspension till further notice for a Facebook post.

“Although, I was very careless on my part, but I also feel my freedom or privacy is trampled upon,” he lamented.

A while ago, MTN threatened that if Nigerians attack them, they would be forced to layoff close to 6,000 Nigerians on their payroll.

The company made this known in a statement issued by its Corporate Services Executive, Wale Goodluck.