Students Fault Their Exclusion In Firm’s Consumer Outreach Palliatives

Students across the three senatorial districts of Ogun State have faulted the decision of the manufacturer of Indomie not to consider the students’ populace in its recently concluded charitable meals distribution outreach for the elderly citizens in the state.

Ogun students under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Joint Campus Committee (JCC) of Ogun Axis, among others, have also given wholesalers and retailers of products being manufactured by the company, a 72-hour ultimatum within which to exhaust sales or dispose them off failure of which they threatened to destroy them.

In a statement issued yesterday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, signed by five members of the students’ leadership, the student bodies accused management of De United Foods Industries Limited; maker of the Indomie Noodles of deliberately excluding the students’ populace from the targeted beneficiaries of the company’s consumer outreach endeavours, even when they are obviously and popularly referred to as “the Indomie generation.”

The statement, copy of which was obtained by LEADERSHIP Weekend, was signed by Comrades Adeyanju Francis Oluwafemi for NANS/JCC Ogun Axis; Thomas Mathew Kehinde, NAOSS Global President; Kehinde Damilola Simeon, chairman, Ogun Students Stakeholders Forum; Opeyemi Bestman George, President, PSM Nig, and Abdulwasiu Lawal, chairman of NAUS Ogun CMC.

While acknowledging Indomie Noodle manufacturer’s dedication to the statutory corporate social responsibility (CSR), the students’ body, however, berated the manufacturer for failing to extend similar initiatives to the students whom they said constituted a proportional significance of about 70 percent of the company’s consumers from primary, secondary schools to higher institutions.

“Despite this substantial representation, there has been an apparent deficiency in gestures of appreciation or support towards students in Ogun States,” they said.