27 staff sacked in one day by Abuja Film Village cry out to Wike
Sacked staff of Abuja Film Village have cried out to the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, Nyesom Wike, to come to their aid and upturn their unlawful termination by the then managing director of the organization, Mrs. Francisca Ibezim.
Spokesman of the aggrieved sacked staff, Habila Kayit, in a statement, in Abuja, yesterday, said the Abuja Film Village International had 27 staff, comprising both senior and junior cadres, but who have now been sacked.
He said: “The Film Village has been in existence since 2007, but unable to achieve its set objectives as expected.
While we express worries on the inability of the entity to run with its vision, the staff are always active with laudable initiatives but get turned down by the then management for paucity of funds and bottlenecks from the FCT administration.
However, reports and engagements with some of the management staff of the FCTA revealed failure of the then management of the film village to build the company on the path of sustainability and best practices. In view of the above, we dissociate ourselves from their decisions as our consent was not sought before taking those decisions.
After the sack of the entire film village staff, a whopping N400 million was allocated to the Film Village for the 2023 budget by the National Assembly, with no permanent staff except the then managing director, yet the dismissed staff are left to fate.
However, the then managing director resorted to use contract staff to run the office before she was relieved of her job by the minister on September 31, 2023.
We call on the minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, Nyesom Wike, to wade in and intervene as the father of all on the injustice meted out on aggrieved sacked staff of the Abuja Film Village.
