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| Pastor Chris |
An aggrieved couple, Monday, staged a hunger protest at Global plus Printing Press, a subsidiary of Christ Embassy Church, in Oregun, Ikeja area of Lagos, over alleged production of poor quality magazine. The protesting couple, Mr and Mrs Boniface Ihiasota, publishers of Excel Magazine, who demanded to see the Managing Director o f the company, ended up passing the night at the front desk of the printing company.
Addressing journalists yesterday, Mr Iheota alleged that the company refused to reprint the magazine as well as refund his money.
He said: “They messed up my printing. The picture qualities are bad. They didn’t attempt to treat any of the pictures. They also failed to meet deadline, seven times.
I booked and changed flights from the United States of America, seven times because of the delay caused by the company. Flight money is never refunded. My wife was supposed to take the magazines to Addisa-Abba, but she couldn’t.
She had to book a flight down to Nigeria, to know what was causing the delay. All these cost us money. The General Manager promised to reprint the magazines and take care of logistics but now, the company has reneged. The company didn’t meet deadline and that in effect, affected my business.
I am therefore demanding N160 million as compensation”. However when Vanguard requested to know how much was paid for the printing, a staff of Global plus Printing press who spoke on condition of anonymity disclosed that Iheota only paid a deposit of N1.2 million.
The staff also clarified that only some of the pictures in the printed magazines were not cleared. He was however quick to add that the fault was from the complainant who gave them the go ahead to print, when his attention was brought to the seeming blurred pictures.
The staff said: “We have text messages and emails of the conversations with him. When we noticed that some of the pictures sent were not bright enough, we told him to send better ones and when he didn’t, we sent him a mail requesting if we should go ahead with what he sent and he said we could.
“When he came yesterday (Monday), he was shouting and requested to see our boss. While he was raising his voice, he scattered our bookshop, broke some items and even attempted to stab one of our workers with a sharp object but it was collected from him.
We have everything on tape. We instructed our security men not to touch him or his wife, as he might end up saying that he was attacked. Even when he slept in our office, we allowed him. We even told him to go with the completed job and that we would print the next edition free for him, yet he refused”.
Policemen from Alausa division who were invited , took both parties to the station.
Vanguard