Mr Dokpesi has regused to pay his workers salary for sbout 2years now. Many of the staff then survived on the brown envelopes they
got at events they went to cover cos they weren't paid
regularly and even their salary still was so small and pitiful.
Workers of Daar Communications Plc, operators of African
Independent Television (AIT) and Raypower FM Radio,
yesterday shut down all broadcasting activities at the Benin
studio in protest over unpaid 17 months salaries.
The scores of protesting workers were said to have blocked
the main entrance to the station located along the Benin/
Lagos bypass.
It was gathered that the protesting workers put at about fifty
workers, were owed salaries spanning between 12 and 17
months.
According to Pm News, one of workers who claimed
anonymity said that newly employed staff of AIT were being
owed 12 months while old staff were yet to be paid salaries
between 13 months and staff of the Raypower FM, the Radio
arm of the broadcast outfit were owed 17 months.
“The stations generate millions of naira on a daily basis, so
there is no reason why we should not be paid our salaries.
They have no excuse not to pay us our money. It is share
wickedness and man’s inhumanity to his fellow man. We
have families to care for and children to pay their school fees.
Many of our children have stopped going to school. But their
own attend schools abroad.
Look at where our station is located, in another village so far
away from Benin City. You have to chatter a taxi cab for not
less