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Raging Questions About Ex Presidential Aide, Reuben Abati’s Big Money Investment Flamingo Pure Water As Production Company’s Workers Disengage After Payment Of Backlog Of Salaries
Information filtering in revealed there are raging questions about Flamingo, the big money investment table and pure water brands being produced by a company reportedly owned by former Presidential Aide Reuben Abati and his wife.
The wife is said to be publicly positioned as power behind the brand which is being produced in Abeokuta, Ogun state.
Societynowng.com learn’t the questions decorating the product in it’s area of production stem from recent actions of workers of the production company.
Those who should known a bulk of them disengaged after receiving backlog of salaries recently.
According to a source ‘’I gathered the staffers in question were owed some salaries, some five, some four depending but they continued working with the hope of getting paid and immediately they got paid, left the company en masse’’
Societynowng.com learnt while the salaries remained unpaid the management had cited issues of unusual economic situation affecting patronage for the delay in payment of the then outstanding salaries.
Knowledge of this development has sparked whispers of concern for the future of the company in Abeokuta because of it’s huge popularity.
‘’when a company starts owing four, five months salaries, especially one that is yet to be grounded with it’s operations, something grave is amiss and special care should be taken by stakeholders’’ an observer noted.
Societynowng.com learnt that the brand name Flamingo water is especially popular in Ogun state capital of Abeokuta because of it’s manner of entry into the market.
Informants claim the production company with administrative office in Olorunsogo cum Abiola Way axis of the town- and factory else where -kicked off with huge recruitment of graduates placing them on monthly salaries of N30,000 to N35,000.
‘’They employed a lot of people and the noise was much as the employed fell over themselves to market the product’’ a source pointed out.
But unfolding events appear however to be telling a radically different story as regards sustaining the work force, based on level of patronage.
And according to a source ”this is not too good because it is obvious the owner has put a lot of capital into start up, the factory, the offices, marketing and delivery trucks not to talk of the huge staff strength with army of marketers placed on N30 to N35, 000 per month…it is certainly isn’t a good development this thing that is happening”


