Former NIMN staff to stage protest against ‘unlawful hijack of Institute’

Some disengaged staff of National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, NIMN will on Thursday this week stage a peaceful demonstration  over what they described as ‘unlawful hijack of the institute and the unfair disengagement of the staff by Tony Agenmonmen-led council’.

A source who is one of the affected staff said that the protest would take place at the institute’s secretariat at Centre for Management Development, CMD, Shangisha, Lagos.

The source said that the disengaged staff were not particularly happy over maltreatment and  the tone of the disengaging letter.

The institute had late last year disengaged  almost all the employees of the institute numbering about 40, over what the institute said is for repositioning of the institute for better performance. They were told to reapply, but it was gathered that the institute did not require more than 30 percent of the workforce to operate.

During his campaign late last year for the position of President of NIMN, Tony Agenmonmen promised to sanitise and restore order to the NIMN and return it to a credible institute compared to others.

For about 10 years, the institute was enmeshed in crisis as there were two factions that existed over leadership disagreement in the institute. But nerves calmed and stability returned when Ganiyu Koledoye who replaced Lugard Aimiuwu (late) as president, took over the affairs of the institute. Ganiyu handed over presidency to the present president Tony Agenmonmen.

The NIMN is the body charged with the responsibility of regulating the marketing profession in Nigeria. This includes the authority to determine who are marketers and the standards of knowledge and skills to be obtained by persons seeking to become members of the marketing profession.

The Institute was established through the Act of Parliament No. 25 which came into effect in July 2003.