A
security guard was shocked after returning from a holiday to visit his
mother in Nigeria to find he had been banned from work because his
employers feared he had Ebola. Sam Ayodele Ogunnoiki, 46, from St
Austell, Cornwall came back from a three week holiday there on Saturday
to find a letter from his boss saying several members of staff had
raised concerns about working with him following his trip. That came
despite Nigeria being officially declared free of the deadly virus.
Mr Ogunnoiki, who has worked for Stout
Security LTD for eight years, was told by director Trevor Mannell that
he had to allay colleagues’ fears that he was carrying the Ebola virus
back with him and could not allow him to return to work until he had
been back in the UK for at least three weeks.
Read the letter addressed
to Mr Ogunnoiki after the cut................................
‘In order to allay any fears that you are a
carrier for this deadly virus, I feel I cannot allow you to return to
work until you have been back in the United Kingdom for three weeks –
which is the incubation period.
Nigeria does
not have Ebola but he said I have to be cleared. There is this stigma
surrounding me now. It’s just ignorance and a nightmare because I cannot
work. I’m a British citizen.My wife does the same job as me and I saw
her at the weekend and she has been allowed to work, but if she has been
in contact with me she would have Ebola too. There is no justification
for this at all.
Mr Ogunnoiki added that it was unlikely
Stout Security LTD would rehire him to work again at Pendennis Dockyard
in Falmouth. He said he has now been put on a zero hours contract.
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