Members of staff of the Abuja Urban Mass Transport Company, AUMTCO, have expressed displeasure over the sack of the MD/CEO, Najeeb Abdussalam.
DAILY NIGERIAN reports that the minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, announced on Wednesday the sack of all heads of agencies and parastatals under his ministry.
DAILY NIGERIAN gathered Mr Abdulsalam was appointed as AUMTCO boss by the then FCT minister, Mohammed Bello, in the twilight of the Buhari administration.
But after the announcement of his removal alongside 20 other heads of agencies and parastatals, some staff of the company expressed their displeasure and shed tears over his untimely departure from the company.
According to them, Mr Abdussalam had brought transformational changes to the company within his short time at the helm of affairs.
In a video circulating online, some staff of the company were seen weeping while others chanted “we want him”, “we want him”.
Addressing a crowd of staff who came out to bid him farewell, an official of the amalgamated union of public corporations, civil service technical and recreational services employees [AUPCTRE] said the staff would have staged a protest if the MD was the only person affected by the minister’s order.
“If we don’t appreciate him, God will not forgive us, and that’s why we are here to show him that we appreciate what he has achieved.
“If he were to be the only one affected, we would have taken our protest to the minister’s office”, the official said.
Another member of staff said, “We pray you come back and meet us soon. Because we still need you, we still have hope in you. You have changed this place. If someone is bringing change, many people will not like him, God in heaven saw what you have done”.
Another staff member said even an Angel can’t beat the record set by Mr Abdulsalam in the past three months.
“Even if they bring an angel from heaven, he will not achieve what the MD has achieved in just three months. Some people have held the position for 10 years with nothing to show,” the worker said.
