Soundcity Scandal: Ex-Employee Spills Tea

January 26, 2020January 26, 2020 Editor

Former Soundcity OAP Awazi has described the media company as “the worst place she has ever worked”.

She made this known on Twitter to support the claims of another Twitter user Mary Colette, who said SoundcityFM had not paid its staff in over three months.

Check out the thread below:

This is not an issue that started today, It has actually been going on for YEARS and now that they’ve had enough, some of them get fired as a way of silencing the rest. And guess what? It worked!
— Cizzle!! (@Marycolette_) January 25, 2020

This has to be the highest form of bullying I have ever seen. You owe your staff for MONTHS without any form of explanation/communication but go on to organize concert(S) and an award show and expect them to fold their arms and do nothing? Come on!
These are the issues.
— Cizzle!! (@Marycolette_) January 25, 2020

OAP Awazi then followed up with her own experience at Soundcity FM, ranging from unpaid salaries to the lack of functional equipment to sexual harassment.

Check out the thread below:

In the last 8 months so many people have asked me why I left soundcity and “threw away such a great opportunity” LOL y’all don’t know the half of it.
At the time I left I knew I was much better unemployed than working under the horrible conditions I was subjected to at soundcity
— AWAZI (@THEAWAZI) January 25, 2020

Then there’s the fact that nothing works in this place! I’m talking microphone issues, headphones, air conditioning
Oh don’t get me started on the constant bullying and systemic attempts to intimidate anyone that has any kind of opinion or expectation for things to be done right
— AWAZI (@THEAWAZI) January 25, 2020

The point is for a company where even basic things don’t work to be owing you for all these months then have the audacity to systematically bully you & finally fire you because you asked for your money or even just small update on the matter is actually fucking wild & so wicked!
— AWAZI (@THEAWAZI) January 25, 2020

A lot of former employees commented, agreeing with everything she had said. Apparently, a lot of people knew about the bad working conditions at Soundcity FM, but did not want to risk losing their jobs by speaking up.

This is how the cycle of abuse is perpetuated in the work environment; when the system bullies employees into silence and their misdeeds go unpunished for years.

But unfortunately, Awazi and the other Soundcity workers are not the only ones to experience this. Every month in Lagos, thousands of hardworking people go without pay because the labour laws in Nigeria are abysmal and the government could not possibly care less.

Hopefully, Soundcity FM pays its dues or faces the consequences of its cruelty. But knowing Nigeria, this will probably fade into oblivion in a few days.