The laborers, who guaranteed they are owed a while of pay rates, uncovered that they left Nigeria hapless and with just promissory notes rather than monies owed them by Gotel.
The influenced people incorporate David Guinan, Ebong Udoma, William Chu, Devon Petley, Susie Iliyan, Teddy Vuong, Hannington Osodo, Kostas Sergiadis, and Richard Spiropoulos.
They were altogether procured between late 2014 and mid-2015 by Atiku's organization situated in Yola, Adamawa State.
As indicated by the group, their central goal was to dispatch global news to divert situated in Abuja for Atiku however scarcely 10 months after they showed up Nigeria, they had to leave with major extraordinary compensations in spite of having legitimate work visas given by the Nigerian Government.
Portraying his miserable experience, Chu uncovered that every one of the guarantees made to them by Atiku's organization was rarely satisfied.
He stated, "Before I left New York, John Chiahemen and Gary Alfonso gave me the once-over of what I'd do when I showed up.
"I was informed that I'd be situated in Abuja for a year. I was informed that the task was completely supported, as much as of a few a huge number of United States dollars.
"I was informed that we had an office prepared to work out and reserves planned for gear. None of this was valid."
Guinan, who was procured in 2014 to go about as Gotel's Director of Television and Digital Media, stated, "I was advised to bring my family, my better half and our infant young lady, who wasn't even two years of age at the time.
"My agreement guaranteed a three-room house in Abuja and a driver. From the minute we landed nothing guaranteed was conveyed.
"We were quickly put in inadequate housing, a motel, and disagreeable staff."
In his comments, Osodo from Kenya and previous maker with Reuters, stated, "I lost the vast majority of my assets because of obligation.
"My home was repossessed by the bank in view of deferred installments by Gotel.
"Incidentally, I couldn't make the installments for a considerable length of time since I had bets on the agreement I marked that drag the name and obligation of Abubakar Atiku."
Endeavors by the influenced people to get their pay rates by means of sequential letters through their legal counselors to Gotel and Atiku have yielded no outcomes.
Atiku's representative, Paul Ibe, didn't react to calls and instant messages to his cell phone line by SaharaReporters over the issue.
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Source: SaharaReporters
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