“True talk”- BBN’s Tochi says Nigerian employers overwork and underpay staff

Tochi, a former housemate of the reality series Big Brother Naija, recently ignited an internet discussion after he remarked about how some Nigerian employers treat their staff.

He disclosed in a post on his Instagram stories that certain firms frequently hire employees for a particular position but then force them to perform other duties while underpaying them.

The reality star claims that only in Nigeria would an employer hire a chef and then make him work as a driver, cleaner, gateman, nanny, and other jobs while paying him a pittance.

In his words;

“Nigerians will employ a chef and turn him into a nanny, gateman, cleaner, driver and delivery agent and still pay him 17,500 naira.”

Tochi’s open statement prompted an online debate, with many Nigerians sharing their own experiences with bosses that underpaid and overworked them.

A few internet users who responded to the post expressed their unhappiness with the nation’s terrible treatment of workers.

metallic_ug: “Driver into car wash. Apprentice into house boy. They looks of those doing this job could tell you we are so inhumane.”

onyeje_agada: “Chef wey the carry children go school.”

rosythrone: “When they lack professionalism they get to be used anyhow, I guess if all chefs are professionals none would settle for anything other than their jobs, let see ifthe employers won’t change their £vil ways.”

lone_wolfe1: “China d learn for cheap labour where naija Dey.”

queenies_hairs: “No be only chef ooo, even in companies ooo. They would tell you is customer service but you go still do sales join.”

t4telma_: “Even apprentice who registered to learn a skill, they’ll send them fr school runs,market runs, delivery agent, house keeping, laundry, even to help date their husbands nd be their children’s nanny,Nawa”