The House of Representatives Tuesday, November 17, decried the unrealistic targets banks set for their female marketers, accusing the financial institutions of promoting prostitution.
The motion was sponsored by Hon Segun Alexander Adekola with the title, “Urgent Need to Curb Unwholesome Practices of Banks in Nigeria.”
Adekola said: “A critical assessment of the targets being given to these employees to meet, show them to be unrealistic, unreasonable, ordinarily unattainable and irrational.
“But these banks resort to unethical means to ensure that these targets are met by either explicitly or impliedly encouraging their staff, especially the female ones to engage in illicit behaviour.”
The lower house decried casualisation in the industry, describing it as slavery, adding that staffers who don’t meet the unrealistic targets are sacked.
Adding her voice to the issue, Hon. Rita Orji stated that some of the sacked workers are dismissed via text messages.
The House Majority Leader, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, recalled that he made an attempt to stop the practice with his Corporate Prostitution Bill presented in the Sixth Assembly, informing his colleagues that the bill got to the stage of a public hearing, but some bankers shot it down.
He said: “Marriages have been wrecked and homes destroyed because of this practice and I am sure that none of us here will allow our daughters to be involved in this.”
Speaker Yakubu Dogara, called for a voice vote on the motion, and stressed the need to appeal to the conscience of the bank managements to desist from the act.
According to Daily Sun, the House also mandated its Committee on Banking and Currency to investigate the unwholesome practices and report its findings within a month.
Meanwhile the deputy chairman, media and public affairs committee, Jonathan Gaza has denied the rumoured rift between Dogara and Gbajabiamila.
According to earlier reports, both leaders were said to have been at loggerheads over the recent composition of the house committees.
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