A video of two security guards manning the security posts of a Chicken Republic restaurant has been trending. In the video, the security boys were seen abandoning their duty posts and happily engaged  in a dance battle amongst themselves inside the chicken republic restaurant and video recording it for tik tok and instagram views.

After the video started trending across the social media, the management of the chicken republic food spot fired the two boys for lack of discipline, being indolent and dancing while on duty.

People have been airing their opinions which is mostly criticism against the decision of the management of the chicken republic to sack the “merry go round”  security boys for dancing on duty; some critics even claimed that the boys dancing with their full security uniform inside the chicken republic restaurant is a PR for the restaurant and also a PR for the security guard company that the boys were hired from.

Can you in all due diligence as a boss of a company hire or keep a security guard who you know is undisciplined, insubordinate and all he does is to leave his security duty post and dance all day to make tik tok videos?

You can keep the answer to yourself!

While we all try to be humane and have a figment of human empathy, we should never let the fact that we are empathetic make us paint what is wrong to be right. Security guards dancing in their full attire on duty is wrong and it’s intolerable anywhere and everywhere.

How can you as a security guard  be dancing and making tiki tok videos while on job during working hours with your full security outfit inside the workplace and you expect the management you work for to pat you on the back, clap for you and give you a raise.

This brings a bad image to the security company that the boys were hired from as it shows lack of discipline on the part of the securities, it shows irresponsibility, indolence and insubordination.

Those that have been calling out the management of the food company for firing them should instead hire the boys if they are okay with having security guards that would be dancing and making tik tok videos on duty or they should recommend the boys to another company to hire them.

Nigerians just have a way of justifying what is wrong and painting it to be somehow right and always supporting the victim even if the victim was wrong of his or her action,  if not how can any one justify a worker abandoning his work to dance around and make videos, not just a worker, but security guards on uniform. If these security boys are claiming to be entertaining customers with their dance, is that what they are employed for? And of all people that will engage in entertainment of customers will it be reasonable to be security guards?

The dancing alone is constituting a nuisance to the food place and disturbing customers, it’s a food restaurant and not a concert hall.

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The burgeoning African tech ecosystem, which is being spearheaded by fintech, is increasingly seeing health-tech rising. Although less when compared with fintech, health technology startups have been receiving millions of dollars in investments recently. This is largely due to the huge frictions in the healthcare industry in Africa.

Many of the health tech startups are carving out an area out of the many problems enveloping the African health industry. As such, Global health-tech company, Susu, focused on making healthcare accessible and affordable for every African, has completed a €2 million pre-seed funding round with angel investors.

Susu offers bundled health services that provide patients with planned, long-term health support, to ensure optimal monitoring of their health conditions, including pregnancy, child care, and chronic disease management. The startup is currently operational in Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and Senegal.

The company said part of the funding was also raised as debt, and grant financing from BPI France, the French government’s public investment bank.

Susu was founded in 2019 by Bola Bardet after she lost her father to complications of a chronic health condition due to poor management. Her experience with her father’s condition inspired Bola to help others avoid the same fate. Alongside her co-founders, Laurent Leconte (Chief Technology Officer) and Sandrine Egron (Chief Operations Officer), Bola has built the startup to serve thousands of Africans.

The startup is designed to tackle many of the challenges facing the African healthcare industry. Besides poor healthcare systems, growing population and urbanization have all contributed to a sharp rise in the mortality of chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension. In addition, most people do not have access to quality healthcare and are in urgent need of solutions to manage their healthcare needs.

Studies show that the medical insurance penetration rate is less than 3% in Africa, leaving 97% of the population having to pay medical expenses out of pocket. Susu intends to mitigate this problem by supporting beneficiaries’ healthcare journeys through care bundles while using an integrated approach to better connect the patients, their families, and healthcare professionals.

Bola Bardet, CEO of Susu said the idea is to use tech to improve the healthcare sector just like the financial industry.

“I suffered the terrible loss of my dad due to the mismanagement of his medical condition. I knew that the situation could have been prevented if he had access to comprehensive healthcare and that’s why I started Susu, to provide access to quality and affordable healthcare to others. We should not be fatalist about access to quality healthcare in Africa.  Like financial inclusion is being improved with mobile payment solutions, technology is going to play a tremendous role over the next decade in providing solutions to tackle the challenges faced by the healthcare systems over the continent.

“There is a high demand for our service, so we are eager to expand quickly to other countries.  In 2021, we had a 400% growth rate in terms of revenue and multiplied our customer base by 5. On top of that, we see more family members and friends, especially those from the diaspora, wanting to contribute financially to the care of a beneficiary, so we have gone ahead to build technology that allows for several family members and friends to co-finance the service”, Bola said.

With this funding, Susu intends to grow the company’s team, enrich the technology platform with new features. The startup also intends to launch the service in 6 new countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria and Ghana. It is also developing new care bundles including a maternity care bundle to reduce mortality risk for pregnant women and their babies.

Christopher Neves, one of Susu’s angel investors and a senior executive with experience in multinational insurance groups said about the investment: “I have been following Susu since the beginning of the project. And I see its huge potential, focused on building a solution to provide access to affordable healthcare in Africa through technology. Since the start, Bola Bardet and her team have demonstrated their capabilities and ambition in executing such a project”.