magazine, Monalisa, Kelvin Keshi, wrote a letter to online
media claiming Monalisa and her boyfriend/business partner
Lanre Nzeribe treated him and other staff of the magazine
badly.
Monalisa, who has been silent on the issue recently granted
City People magazine an interview where she cleared the air
on what really happened. What she said below...
The case was a very sad one. Kelvin as a matter of fact
was a mistake. He is boy we tried to help even though we
knew deep down he wasn't well qualified but we needed
to get someone who has expreience because other staff are
fresh graduates. So we just told him to come on board and
when he came, he had his CV doctored, his address
doctored and he said he was the assistant editor in that
publication but he wasnt. He lied about so many things
that we didn't feel was necessary for him to have lied
about.
He was good at writing and so we said as long as you are
good at writing, its not a problem because we need a very
good person who can head the editorial department. His
disposition was very laid back but we said come on board, we
need people to be groomed. Well he came on board but
started having an affair in the office. We didn't realize he was
having an affair with the same lady in the other publication
house where they came from. He came down here and started
off from where he left off. I didn't know and there was so
much commotion going on. He couldn't head his department
nor meet his targets, and in the midst of all that, there was
another girl working with them who they also frustrated. So
we told him to go away for a while, we didn't even lay him
off and the next was that he went on crazy on the internet, He
started publishing company intellectual property. So we had to
change a whole lot of thing. We had to change the title of the
magazine, some text and lots more. To our utter disappointment, he has a brother who is a lawyer so he came
and we had a meeting with them and he was totally
disappointed. He said this was just a disgruntled brother who
feels he wasn't treated well. I said how because we were
always talking on the phone and i kept asking him what the
problem was. It was much later after we laid him off we
realized this affair he was having was affecting him. That was
just what happened".
When asked if he was owed any salary as Kelvin alleged,
Monalisa said
"We have documents to prove there is nothing like that.
all the while he was meant to meet up his target but he
was concentrating on his job and we asked him to go
away for two weeks. Perhaps its the two weeks pay he is
asking of and that is not done anywhere, you cant go and
release company property just like that, its not done. I
pray wherever he is right now, may God forgive him".
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