EGOMBUTE FAILED ME !!

 There was this job that I was supposed to deliver but on the last day, I was not available because another job came up and I needed to handle it.  I left Egombute on the first job and went for the second job together with another person hoping that he (Egombute) would finish the job and collect our remaining balance (which he did) but he kept the proceeds away from me  and even told me lies.

Let me be specific, this job was awarded for the sum of N30,000.00 in addition to another N1000 which was attached to the money due to the nature of the job and that makes it N31,000.00 and the crooked foreman did not want to pay handsomely.

Now, let me tell you what happened. It was a filling job. Normally, when a foundation is dug, they need to fill the foundation with sand so that workers could get a place with which to cast the German floor but the thing there is that filling entails three things and these are:

1. Back filling

2. Filling and

3. Re-filling

Back filling starts when you pack sands and cover the space between the foundation block and the outside of the building:

 

Position for image of back filling.

Filing starts when you actually pack sands and fill the inside of the foundation to the level that they want:

 

 

Position for image of filling.

That day, I went to work at Chinmark group because it was a construction company that helps people to set up buildings of various magnifications, designs and tastes. So, I expected him to finish the job and get our money.

Mind you, we have worked for three days already and it was remaining just one day and we had done both the back filling and the filling of the foundation. So, it was remaining just the re-filling which could not be more than a day’s job which two people could do and I was expecting him to find somebody, attach the person to himself, finish the work and get our remaining money which was what he did but he refused to disclose the exact amount of money that he paid the guy to me and even claimed that I was supposed to pay back N3000 to the company since that I did not complete the job.

He told me that the people who finished the job charged N17,000.00 for the re-filling. Meanwhile, we did both the filling and the back-filling within 3 days and this is just a day’s work. If you charge N17,000 for the re-filling of the foundation, it means that the actual filling of the foundation was done for 13,000 because the back-filling money was just N1000 and the foreman was supposed to pay for the re-filling but he didn’t instead, he only paid for back-filling and filling and expected us to do the re-filling for the same amount (which was not our job) but the craziest mistake I made was inviting Egombute into the job.

Normally, I should have looked for another person but he was the only capable hand available at that time and I promised to pay him 12,000 out of the money if we finish well and 5,000 if he runs away from the job because I was not interested in the re-filling and back-filling jobs.

My own was to do the filling and get away because that was where the junk of the money is (imagine 30,000.00) and that was what we did. As at the time that I left the site on the third day, the filling job was over. So, I was expecting the man to pay us completely but he didn’t rather he was insisting that we do the re-filling job before he could pay us our balance of N14,000.00 being that we had collected N17,000.00 during the course of our work which we shared as follows:

Day 1 (6,000) = Egombute (2000) + Imiano (4,000).

Day 2 (4,000) = Egombute (1,600) + Imiano (2,400).

Day 3 (7000) = Egombute (3000) + Imiano (4000).

In all, Egombute collected N6,600.00 only before the final day of the job while I collected N10,400.00 (as a sharp guy) out of the total sum of N17,000 they paid us which includes the money for filling and back-filling (which means that they did not pay for re-filling and the foreman mandated us to do it before our money could be released to show how crooked that he was).

So, that is the story (my brother and my sister). On the fourth day, Egombute concluded the job in my absence and took the remaining money.

And I was asking him, how can N14,000.00 be spent on re-filling alone (just in one day)? Meanwhile, the actual filling and back-filling took three days to be completed and the only paid us N17,000 yet he was claiming that I was supposed to bring out N3000 and add to the sum of N14,000.00 to make it 17,000 which according to him was what the people who did the re-filling in one day charged but when I met the Cashier in the site, he told me to forget about the money. I never met the foreman because he was crooked.

He purposely seized the money till that last day so that he could force me to do the re-filling job that he did not pay for but I don’t blame him (some days are like that) but to be candid, they helped us because the owner of the project who seems to be the Engineer also brought a tractor into the compound and while it was working, it usually puts sands into the foundation for us which means that we only needed to spread and level the said sands within the foundation (so, you can imagine) but Egombute should have told me the truth.

It was during this same period that I met Cubana, the guy who took me to another site to find work because he saw the way that I worked but the thing did not go down well. So, I left.

Here is the crux of the matter: Egombute collected the remaining money and didn’t give me anything. I went for another work and made more money and I hope to work again but a crooked foreman.

I did not give a space for the image of re-filling because it is just the act of act of putting more sands into the building when they pour water on the filling sand which usually sinks and it is not the job of the man who did the filling except if that was included in the price. In fact, even the back-filling is optional.