We
the entire members of the above association wish to draw your attention to the
following issues. At common law, there are certain reciprocal duties of
employee and employer which, in the absence of express terms to the contrary is
implied into all contracts of employment which includes the duty of obedience
which is the fundamental duty of the employee is to carryout his duties in
obedience to the reasonable and lawful order of his employer.
And the duty of co-operation which requires
an employee to discharge his contractual duties in a manner that promotes the
object of his employment, on that note we wish to inform you that bag stitchers,
who we see as our employees don’t obverse these lawful duties, rather their see
us, we the rice millers as useless people. So we sincerely request your quick
interventions in addressing unlawful and non challent attitudes of bag stitches
towards us the rice millers.
Secondly,
the activities of the blanders in the rice mill industry, who uses incomplete
bushels usually contains about 70-80 cups of rice instead of normal bushel
measuring hundred cups of rice, and if nothing is done about this unlawful attitudes, it is capable of
tarnishing the existing reputation, image, custom and practice of the Abakaliki
rice mill industry, on that note, we wish to draw your mind back to the fact
that custom and practice are informal arrangement in workplaces or in
particularly industry which have been regularly enforced or followed till they
became established norms, so it has become an established norms of the
Abakaliki rice mill industry that rice must be measured with complete bushel
having fairness in mind, therefore we humbly request that the activities of the
so called blanders should be checked and stop the usage of incomplete bushels
in our noble industry so as to restore back the image and good reputation of
Abakaliki rice mill industry and of course save our customers from daily cry of
misrepresentation by the wicked blanders.
Thirdly,
Mr. Chairman, we wish also to acquaint with you that one of the guiding
principle or rules and regulation in Abakaliki rice mill industry is that, on
no account should anybody bring milled rice but we know that in every general
rule, their must be an acceptation, so
on this ground we wish to remind or bring to your notice the agreement we made
during Hon. (name)’s regime that who ever brings milled rice into the
industry shall pay stipulated amount to rice millers and to mill owners. But to
our surprise people have been bringing into the industry broken milled
rice, popularly called (name) and since then not even kobo has being
received by rice millers, while mill owners have been receiving their own
compensation, so we want to ask what happen to our compensation as agreed.
Finally,
we also thank you, in no mean measure, in your efforts towards making sure that
Abakaliki rice mill industry remains one of the best in the federation. Nevertheless,
we are not so daft as not to understand the prevalent situation of the
Abakaliki rice mill industry today. But
then, we don’t think we have any other better person that will solve these
problems for us other than you sir. We therefore beseech you sir to come to our
aid, and save the situation before it become deplorable.