oyb:

^^^^

you obviously have never heard of ethics

there is an inherent danger in focusing on the bottom line over anything else

this is what led to the shake up in cadbury a few years back , the failures of enron, worldcom, etc

we spend years in school so we can avoid situations like this in the first place.

i wonder what all these ' it is not by force' noisemakers would say if it was their sister

chillbabe:

It's is not by force, she should stop crying, she wants to be superwoman r u for reall No wonder people like u are still saying her husbands house anno 2009 no wonder i see pregnant women selling purewater under the hot sun. It's because of people like u women don't have a say in Nigeria. And people like u blame the governement what a joke!!!!

"Hey Dad, what with all the female staff of Sky Bank do to PULL IN customers, how come so few of those women ever get pregnant ?"

"Well son, I reckon most Skye Bank customers tend to make early withdrawals."

In a novel civil litigation that is bound to test the ability of a US citizen to sue Nigerian-based defendants, Patrick O’ Keke has brought a Nigerian bank-Skye Bank, a Lagos-based newspaper, “The Nation”, and ten “John and Jane Does” to a US court over allegations of breach of contract, interference with contractual relationship, and harassment. According to the court documents, obtained by Saharareporters, the suit claims stated that on October 30, 2009 Mr. O’Keke signed a contract for the purchase of an advertisement to be printed in the November 2, 2009 issue of “The Nation” for the price of N253, 000.

The advertisement space was to be used for a rejoinder denouncing civil rights abuses in Nigeria, namely incidences wherein the corporate banks prostitute their female workers in order to secure powerful clientele. After hearing about a specific case in the Nigerian High Court, where Skye Bank was accused of encouraging a female employee to use her feminine appeal to bait potential wealthy patrons, O’Keke further researched the issue and found it to be widespread. It is in response to this practice of using prostitution to gain new accounts that O’Keke drafted the rejoinder. It is also a response to ads that Skye published on two accounts, slandering the plaintiff in the Nigerian trial and her family. O’Keke felt it was his place as an attorney and a believer in equal rights for women to write the rejoinder. Similar ads criticizing this practice of prostitution were to be printed in The Nation in the coming months at a discounted price.

Upon hearing of the impending rejoinder, Skye bank allegedly offered The Nation a sum of money to refrain from publishing the piece. Skye also contacted many other newspapers and publications and paid them to refuse to publish the rejoinder. John Doe and Jane Doe 1-10 are also suspected to have been hired to threaten the life of Mr. O’Keke if he did not cease attempts to publish the rejoinder, and also to indicate to Mr. O’Keke the power that Skye holds over courts and publications in Nigeria, should they choose to wield it. When the advert condemning Skye and other Nigerian banks did not run in The Nation, O’Keke contacted the paper and was told that Skye had paid a large sum for it to not be printed.

O’Keke seeks compensatory and punitive damages for financial and emotional distress after having his life threatened repeatedly and as a result, having to continually change his travel and living arrangements. Further incentive for O’Keke to file a suit arose because in the failure of the rejoinder being published, women all over Nigeria were refused an opportunity for an audience of millions to be made aware of Skye’s civil rights violations.

Because O’Keke is a citizen of the United States and the monetary sum of the allegations exceeds $75,000, the suit has been brought to the United States District Court rather than the Nigerian Court. Jurisdiction has also been invoked under the Aliens Tort Statute, which allows cases of human rights abuses brought by foreign citizens to be tried in United States courts, even if the abuses took place abroad.

Case information:
U.S. District Court
Brooklyn Office
Filed: Dec. 14, 2009
Case #: CV 09-5455


Plaintiff: Patrick O’Keke

Defendants: Skye Bank, The Nation, and John and Jane Doe 1-10

ohisng: Make the woman stop making noise!! Anyone force am to join the bank? If she cant do what others do, she should simply quit and stop playing "victimized" person!!

AMIRACH: there was no need for her to sue, she would ve resigned quietly if she was not comfortable with the environment cos every work got its challenges, simple

chosen04: That Lady is really an under performer, She is only looking for public sympathy. Was she too daft too understand the dothed lines she signed before she started works?

She is only fighting a lost battle. Moreover i dont see anything wrong in advising a matured female adult to wear mini skirt and look good!!!. Whats she making noise and seeking cheap pubicity for?

MUZBO: Whatever! While she was seeking the job she was probably flaunting her beauty and her legs which got the manager's attention and he thought if she can get me then why not Hot Chief Whatever!? Now that she has the job she is trying to use brains and keeping the beauty. Just another successful case of 'use what you have to get what you want' but. . . what about what the boss wants?

Rossikk:

You'e the epitome of stup.idity. Ignorant, worthless animal.