By Olabisi Olaleye

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There are trepidations in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry that indigenous local content company, Omatek Group, may finally die a premature death like its founder, late Mrs. Florence Seriki.
This is coming barely three months after the death of its founder and Chief Executive Officer, Engr. Mrs. Florence Seriki, who died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) on March 3, 2017, after a long battle with cancer.
According to a senior staff of the company, Bamidele Anieka, most contracts awarded to the company had been withdrawn and most associates of the organisation are also gradually severing ties with it.
Daily Sun learnt that the foot soldiers of the firm have refused to cooperate with the new Managing Director, Mr. Yemi Ogundipe, who was presented to the staff shortly after her burial.
Another source, who didn’t want his name on print said that the new Managing Director knows nothing about the business but was imposed by the Board of Directors because of his accounting background.
A walk into the Alausa expansive factory of the company by Daily Sun revealed that it was almost deserted except for two elderly security men at the entrance. The once bubbling company is looking like a shadow of itself.
Commenting on the development, a member of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), who doesn’t want to be mentioned said, “although I don’t have the details of the issue, I know that Mrs. Seriki, before passing away, was a significant stakeholder in that organisation. In any company, when the significant person passes on, there should be a succession plan for either the children or neutral person to carry on but when there is no succession plan, the business may die because there is no continuity.
On his part, a past president of Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (Atcon), Chairman Teledom Group and member of NCS, Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem, noted that it calls for concern because the business must not be allowed to die and every stakeholder must rise and support the organisation.