Now the totally out of touch local management with Bristow have issued an eat-before-reading memo saying that expat staff should get their girlfriends or wives to send them out money for their chop with Western Union, or open accounts with Citibank or brandish large wads of cash at the Bureau de Change at Lagos when they arrive. Great thinking in the present security situation
I can just see it now on the morning convoy from Darrel's to QIT. The Bristow bus suddenly pulls out of the armed convoy and drives onto the forecourt of Citibank. Mopol vehicles block off the road and the Mopol wondering what's happening panic, some dropping their weapons and running away as they take off their uniform shirts, while others blindly fire into the air, the bush and the bank
. The convoy commander reports that the convoy is under heavy attack by a group of armed militants who were trying to rob the bank and JTF immediately send an armed response team which arrives sometime later in the afternoon
. Two pregnant women in the crowd are injured and rioting erupts on the street with one driver being beheaded. The convoy eventually starts on its way to QIT, but community unrest has now spread so widely that the gates of QIT are besieged by an angry mob with the driver's head impaled on a stake. It's decided to evacuate all Bristow staff to the MGH helipad by helicopter and that they will stay there for the next few days. As they are fed there by XOM they now have no need of their allowances anyway. The rioting is eventually brought under control after 3 days, during which time Darrel's is razed to the ground. A huge increase of telephone calls to the whistleblower hotline results in the Chief Pilot and Chief Engineer being sacked by the compliance officer and a committee is set up by the HRM in Lagos to look into the cause of the trouble and exonerate him
What do you think NEO? Have you opened your Citibank account yet?