Pls my nairaland family. I really need help,we need help in our family.
This story is long but I'll try and touch everywhere. Please help me.

We got to Sokoto as corpers(NYSC) along the line my brother got employed in food concepts (chicken Republic) as assistant restaurant manager Sokoto branch......I think he impressed the bosses there and they made him restaurant manager in less than six months.

Now here's how the problem started

My elder brother's area manager came to arrest him.
Please house I really need help. My bro works for food concepts (chicken Republic) as the restaurant manager (RM). On Friday he went to work and his area manager came to arrest him that stock worth 2.1 million is missing.
He was detained from Friday.....not until Sunday before I could bail him.
During the course of investigation,the police found some variations. The area manager added figures to the report to make the matter a big one. So my brother in his defence requested for all the records (SIC,BIN card,stock movement, everything) to be brought to the police station and all the remaining 6 managers be brought in to for questioning,since he doesn't have direct contact with the so called stock. ( He is the restaurant manager. He has 6 shift managers under him.)
When the police started going through the records, we also found out that the shift managers has been falsifying their records, it's these records that the shift managers bring that he uses to make his report.
God helping us, the police had to release us on bail since he's been there for more than 48 hours(Friday to Sunday). The police asked everyone including all the shift managers and him(Area manager) to come on Sunday 10am for continuation he didn't show up, they called him on Monday too 10am he didn't show up.
He has been threaten with court and all this legal stuffs sha.
But we know my brother is innocent he's just out to get him.
I don't know the kind of help I should be requesting but I just thought this is the only platform I can get real help.


Cc
Seun
Mynd44
OAM4J
Davide470

Boss, I see your bro is innocent but check this part out:

the police had to release us on bail since...(

This above is what the police only wants: money...bribe!

If those culprits are connected members of the elite class, they'll turn white to black.

They will say your brother stole from the falsified records, and their SAN lawyers will use legal jargons to trick-request you accept the guilt.

The judge in the court, even if he didn't see any other reason to judge you, will give a sentence on the grounds that your mum didn't write WAEC.

I'll advise you to only fight your brother out of the case. Find a good lawyer: stand on the falsified documents! He wasn't a partaker, he only recorded what was submitted to him.

I doubt the manager isn't aware of this fraud..maybe he wants to shift blames!


If you plan on fighting those with Abuja connection, it will be a super story.


Experience Chapter One Versus Two.

I wrote that since April 13..........
So after that week no one from chicken Republic showed up at the police station for the next week the police asked us to be coming. The police pple now told us to stop coming that they don't have a case.
After one month we had to leave Sokoto and relocate back home since we've finished our nysc and my brother has lost his job.....I was working for another company that supplied CR vegetables but my brother's issue affected mine and I lost my job too.
So we went home and we started building our lives again...... sometime last month the police called my bro to come, we told them we're not around we've gone home. Since the police couldn't see him they went to arrest his surety and charge him to court for my bro jumping bail.
Unfortunately the man was remanded for like 5 days in the prison before he could be bailed.......when my mum heard this she had to mandate us to come back to Sokoto and appear in the police station so they'll drop the case against the surety.
We got to Sokoto some days back and called the police man IPO that we're around.
Meanwhile we had contracted a lawyer,the same lawyer that stood for the surety in court. He asked us to send a mail to CR asking for what the want and also citing that he wasn't terminated,and he wasn't given a hearing at the work place, he was just taken to the police.
Attached is the mail he sent to thier lawyer after contacting his boss several times and the area manager always thwarted every effort by my bro to reach out.




Dear Osagie,
I write to bring you up to speed as regards my travail with our company thus far. I was hitherto the restaurant manager at the Chiken Republic, Sokoto. On the 9th day of April 2021, Lukman Ishola, my line manager had me arrested and detained on allegations of converting company products for personal use. I was detained for three days and during my detention, police investigation revealed some discrepancies in the documentations of the shift manager's Short Interval Control (SIC) as with the Bin Cards. I raised alarm over this but the police waived it aside. Lukman yet laid another allegation that my brother who works for Fruit and Veggies colluded with me to defraud the company and this thus made it obvious to me that he was only phishing for anything to indict me on. He stopped showing up at the police station despite repeated calls by the police to show up in the hope that I will remain there for so long. I was however released on bail by the police and I stayed back in Sokoto for a month after hoping to hear from both the company and the police. I never got any invitation for hearing from FC PLC which I believe to be the standard procedure, or any correspondence at all. I later tried to get through to Lukman and Glory, the Regional Manager, but I was not able to reach them to know my fate. I waited for a month but became stranded thereafter and on getting through to the police, the police inspector in charge of my case told me that Lukman has not been serious with my case and has not called on the case. I thereafter travelled. On getting home my health deteriorated. It later came to my attention that Lukman called the police after I already left for Lagos. I informed the police that I was away. Lukman however pressurised the police to charged my bail Surety to court on the grounds that I absconded. I hereby want to state that it is my belief that if FC PLC has a legal dispute with me as an employee, there are channels and procedures to follow. I'll like to know the position of the company as this is becoming untenable and I'm being harassed daily by the police, I never stole from the store, neither have I ever converted company property for personal use. I've had several difficulties in running the Sokoto store since Lukman's appointment as area manager, which were never a problem prior to his appointment. I've had several situations in the store where imprest would not be paid for consecutive weeks, which hinders the running of the store and would leave us scrambling around trying to get products, with Lukman not unable to provide the needed support. Whenever I try to reach out to the Regional Manager he refers me back to my Line/A Manager which I understand to be the protocol. What I do in such situations is to take alternative measures to keep the store running. At no time have I ever asked for products to be sold and cash be remitted to me, nor do I take products I haven't paid for. I believe strongly that Lukman has had preconceived notions about me as he even complained about the fact that I eat the Chickwhizz meal often, which I've always paid for, while I've always wondered if working for FC PLC is expected to make me miserly. So if FC PLC believes they have a concrete dispute to resolve with me, I'm willing and available to discuss a resolution or otherwise resort to litigation. I'll not have my rights infringed upon and people around me harassed by FoodConcepts Plc and be expected to stay silent. Your prompt response to this my appeal is much anticipated.

Regards,
Oluwafemi Oluwo H.

Thurmieee:
I wrote that since April 13..........
So after that week no one from chicken Republic showed up at the police station for the next week the police asked us to be coming. The police pple now told us to stop coming that they don't have a case.
After one month we had to leave Sokoto and relocate back home since we've finished our nysc and my brother has lost his job.....I was working for another company that supplied CR vegetables but my brother's issue affected mine and I lost my job too.
So we went home and we started building our lives again...... sometime last month the police called my bro to come, we told them we're not around we've gone home. Since the police couldn't see him they went to arrest his surety and charge him to court for my bro jumping bail.
Unfortunately the man was remanded for like 5 days in the prison before he could be bailed.......when my mum heard this she had to mandate us to come back to Sokoto and appear in the police station so they'll drop the case against the surety.
We got to Sokoto some days back and called the police man IPO that we're around.
Meanwhile we had contracted a lawyer,the same lawyer that stood for the surety in court. He asked us to send a mail to CR asking for what the want and also citing that he wasn't terminated,and he wasn't given a hearing at the work place, he was just taken to the police.
Attached is the mail he sent to thier lawyer after contacting his boss several times and the area manager always thwarted every effort by my bro to reach out.




Dear Osagie,
I write to bring you up to speed as regards my travail with our company thus far. I was hitherto the restaurant manager at the Chiken Republic, Sokoto. On the 9th day of April 2021, Lukman Ishola, my line manager had me arrested and detained on allegations of converting company products for personal use. I was detained for three days and during my detention, police investigation revealed some discrepancies in the documentations of the shift manager's Short Interval Control (SIC) as with the Bin Cards. I raised alarm over this but the police waived it aside. Lukman yet laid another allegation that my brother who works for Fruit and Veggies colluded with me to defraud the company and this thus made it obvious to me that he was only phishing for anything to indict me on. He stopped showing up at the police station despite repeated calls by the police to show up in the hope that I will remain there for so long. I was however released on bail by the police and I stayed back in Sokoto for a month after hoping to hear from both the company and the police. I never got any invitation for hearing from FC PLC which I believe to be the standard procedure, or any correspondence at all. I later tried to get through to Lukman and Glory, the Regional Manager, but I was not able to reach them to know my fate. I waited for a month but became stranded thereafter and on getting through to the police, the police inspector in charge of my case told me that Lukman has not been serious with my case and has not called on the case. I thereafter travelled. On getting home my health deteriorated. It later came to my attention that Lukman called the police after I already left for Lagos. I informed the police that I was away. Lukman however pressurised the police to charged my bail Surety to court on the grounds that I absconded. I hereby want to state that it is my belief that if FC PLC has a legal dispute with me as an employee, there are channels and procedures to follow. I'll like to know the position of the company as this is becoming untenable and I'm being harassed daily by the police, I never stole from the store, neither have I ever converted company property for personal use. I've had several difficulties in running the Sokoto store since Lukman's appointment as area manager, which were never a problem prior to his appointment. I've had several situations in the store where imprest would not be paid for consecutive weeks, which hinders the running of the store and would leave us scrambling around trying to get products, with Lukman not unable to provide the needed support. Whenever I try to reach out to the Regional Manager he refers me back to my Line/A Manager which I understand to be the protocol. What I do in such situations is to take alternative measures to keep the store running. At no time have I ever asked for products to be sold and cash be remitted to me, nor do I take products I haven't paid for. I believe strongly that Lukman has had preconceived notions about me as he even complained about the fact that I eat the Chickwhizz meal often, which I've always paid for, while I've always wondered if working for FC PLC is expected to make me miserly. So if FC PLC believes they have a concrete dispute to resolve with me, I'm willing and available to discuss a resolution or otherwise resort to litigation. I'll not have my rights infringed upon and people around me harassed by FoodConcepts Plc and be expected to stay silent. Your prompt response to this my appeal is much anticipated.

Regards,
Oluwafemi Oluwo H.

So in response to this they lawyer replied


Dear Oluwafemi,



This is to acknowledge your email.



I have spoken to Lukman and Sokoto Trainee Area Manager to have discussions with you(as indicated in your mail) at the Sokoto Shop.



Now that you are back in Sokoto, kindly indicate when you would be available to meet with the above mentioned staff.



Please treat as urgent.


Then
Dear Osagie,
As I indicated in my previous email, I am available on Friday 10/9/2021 if possible to discuss the matter with the Current Trainee Area Manager and Lukman Ishola as well.


Regards,
Oluwafemi.

Then

Dear Oluwafemi,



Lukman and the Trainee Area Manager would have the meeting with you for 10am at the shop tomorrow 10/09/2021.



Regards




So after this a meeting was arranged today in thier store Sokoto

Thurmieee:


So in response to this they lawyer replied


Dear Oluwafemi,



This is to acknowledge your email.



I have spoken to Lukman and Sokoto Trainee Area Manager to have discussions with you(as indicated in your mail) at the Sokoto Shop.



Now that you are back in Sokoto, kindly indicate when you would be available to meet with the above mentioned staff.



Please treat as urgent.


Then
Dear Osagie,
As I indicated in my previous email, I am available on Friday 10/9/2021 if possible to discuss the matter with the Current Trainee Area Manager and Lukman Ishola as well.


Regards,
Oluwafemi.

Then

Dear Oluwafemi,



Lukman and the Trainee Area Manager would have the meeting with you for 10am at the shop tomorrow 10/09/2021.



Regards




So after this a meeting was arranged today in thier store Sokoto

After they waited for almost 2 hours none showed up. Then the manager there came and he was asked about the meeting he said he wasn't aware he now called lukman(area manager) he said he's coming. In some mins time the police showed up in the store and arrested him.
Before he was arrested he sent this mails.


Dear Osagie,
Good day, I'm bringing to your attention that I've been in the Sokoto store for well over an hour and I've not been communicated to by Lukman nor is he currently available in the store as at 11:50 am. I believe strongly that he was made aware of this meeting and if he has had reasons to be unavailable, then proper communication is expected. This is an utter lack of civility and I'm inclined to believe he is unwilling to sit with us to have a discussion.

Regards,
Oluwafemi.






Dear Osagie,
In observance of utmost good faith to my bidding and appeal, going by the correspondence I had with you, I came in for the said meeting scheduled for 10 O'clock this morning but Lukman never showed up. It was not until around 12 noon that the Investigative Police Officer came in. I've been hereby told by the Investigating officer here that, Lukman called him to inform him we have no scheduled meeting with him or our company and that the police should take it up from here.
I've tried to reach out to FC PLC to find a resolution to this continual harrassment at the hands of the police without any proper in house investigation and conclusive/ hollistic audit with allowance for the report to be defended. This last shot at me seems to be the last straw that will break the camel's back.


Regards,
Oluwafemi.

Na wa oh.....

Please mods, let's help op by taking this thread to the promised land....A wider view and probably advice and help will definitely come out..

chatinent:
Boss, I see your bro is innocent but check this part out:



This above is what the police only wants: money...bribe!

If those culprits are connected members of the elite class, they'll turn white to black.

They will say your brother stole from the falsified records, and their lawyers will used a legal jargon to request you accept the guilt.

The judge in the court, even if he didn't see any other reason to judge you will give a sentence because your mum didn't write WAEC.

I'll advise you to only fight your brother out of the case. Find a good lawyer: stand on the falsified documents! He wasn't a partaker, he only recorded what was submitted to him.

I doubt the manager isn't aware of this fraud..maybe he wants to shift blames!


If you plan on fighting those with Abuja connection, it will be a super story.


Experience Chapter One Versus Two.

Please I need help how can I make this thread trend....good people of nairaland have to come to our help...... Please.
Now he has been detained again by the police they say they'll charge him to court on Monday.

Sonnobax15:

Bro it's not funny. Please

Thurmieee:


Please I need help how can I make this thread trend....good people of nairaland have to come to our help...... Please.
Now he has been detained again by the police they say they'll charge him to court on Monday.

I'll help you boost.

Lalasticlala, mynd44. Could you check this pls?

Thurmieee:

Bro it's not funny. Please

Nope, ain't really laughing....just went back to read your story..

I'm confused now .......I don't even know what to do.

So sorry about this...

Send a mail to any of our directors.

Ikenna Okongwu <ikenna@foodconceptsplc.com>
Claudette Russel <claudette@foodconceptsplc.com>
Anthonia Agbonifo <anthonia@foodconceptsplc.com>

None will assist you for a help...you don't have a helper in nairaland comment because we don't know the main truth for the story...I can't judge the case from one speaker...

Foodconceptsplc:
So sorry about this...

Send a mail to any of our directors.

Ikenna Okongwu <ikenna@foodconceptsplc.com>
Claudette Russel <claudette@foodconceptsplc.com>
Anthonia Agbonifo <anthonia@foodconceptsplc.com>

That's the response we've been getting.
I'm not surprised by your reply that's the same reply you give to every victim in your hold.
We have reached out to those emails.
I'll post prove.

Kingvitalisdiho:
None will assist you for a help...you don't have a helper in nairaland comment because we don't know the main truth for the story...I can't judge the case from one speaker...

You can't speak for everyone.
I think the company has rules on the way issues should be handled why wasn't any disciplinary hearing held, why wasn't his appointment terminated officially,why wasn't he given a chance to defend himself.

Thurmieee:

That's the response we've been getting.
I'm not surprised by your reply that's the same reply you give to every victim in your hold.
We have reached out to those emails.
I'll post prove.

Get a very good lawyer and sue the company and the individual that took the case to the police

Reach out to human rights lawyers in sokoto

Also register your brother with the DPA they are on Facebook, get all the details after registration between a week to 2 months table your matter I hear that they are good

I PUT IT TO YOU, THAT YOUR BROTHER IS A THIEF.

NEXT CASE!

MikeMicheal:
I PUT IT TO YOU, THAT YOUR BROTHER IS A THIEF.

NEXT CASE!

Get sense ... Seems you are stupid ..

Donaluta:


Get sense ... Seems you are stupid ..

Very stupid indeed

@lalastic lala, please do help, Food concept is know to be very vile and manipulative. This guy needs to be helped

MikeMicheal:
I PUT IT TO YOU, THAT YOUR BROTHER IS A THIEF.

NEXT CASE!

You are wrong, This company is known for such evil manipulations

Post this on Twitter if you can.
Ask your followers to help you retweet.

Hmmm

mr op, in this case get a good lawyer or even join DPA facebook.com/The due process advocates (DPA) pay the registration fee and see your case tackled and voila ur bro will be free

Thurmieee:

That's the response we've been getting.
I'm not surprised by your reply that's the same reply you give to every victim in your hold.
We have reached out to those emails.
I'll post prove.

Bro, your story is quite unfortunate and I'll tell you this ...the Area manager isn't the only one that benefited from this whole saga, guess they want to make your brother the fall guy for offence he didn't commit, I want to believe he didn't commit the offense since he left sokoto and still went back willingly. Nevertheless engage human rights activists that'll help make the case to trend. Someone like @segalink @PoliceNG

Find him on Twitter, also tag the National human rights commission, also tag

@adeyanjudeji
@renoomokri

Hopefully they'll respond, tag them all consistently, you'll see the speed @PoliceNG will respond to your DM

Police can squash the case against your brother, since the complainant didn't show up in two occasions, but guess what, NPF will lol for a way to extort money from you and your brother,even tho their is no case against him.

Oppression.

I feel for you guys.

RomanGreen:


Bro, your story is quite unfortunate and I'll tell you this ...the Area manager isn't the only one that benefited from this whole saga, guess they want to make your brother the fall guy for offence he didn't commit, I want to believe he didn't commit the offense since he left sokoto and still went back willingly. Nevertheless engage human rights activists that'll help make the case to trend. Someone like @segalink @PoliceNG

Find him on Twitter, also tag the National human rights commission, also tag

@adeyanjudeji
@renoomokri

Hopefully they'll respond, tag them all consistently, you'll see the speed @PoliceNG will respond to your DM

Thank you guys for your response.....I've created a thread on twitter and tagged these people.
You can help me trend it too please.



https://twitter.com/Diazzini/status/1436379431740887054?t=RW5HeuoA_Uhbe-8-p14_Nw&s=08

Sultty:
mr op, in this case get a good lawyer or even join DPA facebook.com/The due process advocates (DPA) pay the registration fee and see your case tackled and voila ur bro will be free

I've reached out to them but the admin hasn't replied and I can't post on the group

odysey:


Get a very good lawyer and sue the company and the individual that took the case to the police

Reach out to human rights lawyers in sokoto

Also register your brother with the DPA they are on Facebook, get all the details after registration between a week to 2 months table your matter I hear that they are good

Yes, do this, send a message to public complaints commission on their portal, also use other mediums, a lawyer will be assigned to your case.

Thurmieee:
Pls my nairaland family. I really need help,we need help in our family.
This story is long but I'll try and touch everywhere. Please help me.

We got to Sokoto as corpers(NYSC) along the line my brother got employed in food concepts (chicken Republic) as assistant restaurant manager Sokoto branch....[/b]..I think he impressed the bosses there and they made him restaurant manager in less than six months.[b]

Now here's how the problem started

My elder brother's area manager came to arrest him.
Please house I really need help. My bro works for food concepts (chicken Republic) as the restaurant manager (RM). On Friday he went to work and his area manager came to arrest him that stock worth 2.1 million is missing.
He was detained from Friday.....not until Sunday before I could bail him.
During the course of investigation,the police found some variations. The area manager added figures to the report to make the matter a big one. So my brother in his defence requested for all the records (SIC,BIN card,stock movement, everything) to be brought to the police station and all the remaining 6 managers be brought in to for questioning,since he doesn't have direct contact with the so called stock. ( He is the restaurant manager. He has 6 shift managers under him.)
When the police started going through the records, we also found out that the shift managers has been falsifying their records, it's these records that the shift managers bring that he uses to make his report.
God helping us, the police had to release us on bail since he's been there for more than 48 hours(Friday to Sunday). The police asked everyone including all the shift managers and him(Area manager) to come on Sunday 10am for continuation he didn't show up, they called him on Monday too 10am he didn't show up.
He has been threaten with court and all this legal stuffs sha.
But we know my brother is innocent he's just out to get him.
I don't know the kind of help I should be requesting but I just thought this is the only platform I can get real help.


Cc
Seun
Mynd44
OAM4J
Davide470

You said your brother impressed his Bosses and he was promoted..My question is those Bosses he impressed,where are they and what are they saying about this issue.

What is the relationship between your brother and the area manager in the past like..
Was there any issues in past between them that will make him witch hunt your brother.

Please answer this question sincerely.