EXCLUSIVE: Workers Shut Transcop Hotel, Guests Trap In Lifts Over Unpaid Salaries
Information reaching us
from Calabar is that angry staff of the Transcop Hotel (Metro Hotel) a
popular 5-star hotel, took laws into their hands and held the entire
hotel to ransom on Wednesday.
There was pandemonium in the entire premises as the maintenance staff
were said to have shut down power to the entire building, thus trapping
several guests and senior members of the hotel inside lifts. They are
said to be protesting over non payment of their salary and allowances
for several months.
Those who did not make it into the hotel before the protest commenced
were locked outside, leading to what a source described as total
confusion. It took the efforts of a combined team of security personnel
before the situation was brought under control. Normalcy have returned
to the area.
I hear the security personnel pleaded with the workers and got a
commitment from the management of the big hotel that something will be
done immediately to pay the workers part of their money.
