Why FOBTOB helmsman identified backward integration as veritable tool against workers redundancy

By allcitynews.ng

When Food, Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association (FOBTOB) helmsman, Comrade Jimoh Oyibo pinned backward integration to solution against redundancy, he was probably reminding everyone of that redundancy is a clog in the wheel of good governance. Just as he noted that achieving raliable manufacturing without involvement of backward integration would be a mirage.

As post COVID-19 impact has continue to
ravage the Nigerian economy, FOBTOB leadership has charged the Federal
Government and private employers of labour to think outside the box by embarking on self-dependence.

Reiterating that manufacturers should adopt backward integration and
responsive approaches against retrenchment as that would create joy of having a legitimate means of livelihood, stressed that because redundancy is a personal tragedy, employers of labour should create backward integration channel in order to create room for more raw materials which would act as backup for them and still make such workers useful tool than outright sack.

Oyibo while addressing cross section of media recently in his secretariat in Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria, noted that the reason some companies are embarking on backward integration is to make sure they grow their raw materials so that they can be safe from the strenuous process of having to import raw materials for them to utilise.

In addition he said, some of the companies that are embarking on backward integration will begin to reap their harvest, sooner than expected.

Backward integration is the direction this country should be looking at, by dwelling less on importation. If we don’t do this, what happened to the textile industry will also spread to our sector. Most employers have come to terms with us on reasons they can not keep their workers due to the challenges.

Sometimes we agree and sometimes we don’t as we look for better ways to negotiate. We have told them often a time that redundancy can never be a bailout option. As partners, we tell them that since we are embarking on backward integration, we should take some of the workforce and direct them on the cultivation of raw materials instead of outright sacking and some of them are looking in that direction.

With us coming to terms with our employers, the number of redundancy now has reduced drastically.

Also, on the issue of the naira crunch, it affected most of our workers as the majority could not access cash to come to work. Thank God for the joint efforts of the NLC and TUC to rescue the situation.

On his own remark during the interactive, the General Secretary, Comrade Solomon Adebosin
blamed brain drain on poor governance whereby most Nigerians are of the belief that travelling abroad is the main solution based on the unconducive atmosphere in the country.

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