A pregnant cashier named as Mrs Taiwo has reportedly collapsed on Saturday, May 2, after receiving a sack letter via email from Access Bank of Nigeria.
The pregnant woman worked at the Ketu/Ikorodu Access Bank branch, Lagos State has affected by the bank’s mass retrenchment of staff.
Mrs Taiwo is about three months pregnant.
The bank had announced plans to sack its workers as a result of the negative impact of the Coronavirus outbreak.
It was gathered that many of the bank’s staff received their sack letters via email over the weekend with shock and grief.
A colleague of the lady, who collapsed, spoke with SaharaReporters on the phone.
He said, “Her name is Taiwo. When she got the news today, she collapsed.
There were two of them affected by the mass retrenchment from Ketu/Ikorodu Road branch, as of now.
We will get to know more on Monday about others who were affected. The Taiwo lady is about two or three months pregnant.
“When she heard the news, she collapsed. It was friends and family around her that rushed her to the hospital.”