By Oladapo Sofowora
One of the few businessmen in the country who have had their names crested on gold, is Leo Stan Ekeh, the Chairman, Zinox Group. Not only known for business excellence, but reaching out to those around him with love has also made him an angel in human form.
He has scored many firsts in the past and he still continues in that trend, in fact, he is born a leader. Naturally, he has been placed far above his contemporaries and competitors. Like a man who sees the future, Ekeh is a man with great foresight. A rare feature that has helped him grow in everything he had ventured into.
Undoubtedly, today the Imo State-born billionaire is one personality whose love for fellow human beings is second to none. This is because he gives out freely without attaching undue attention.
It was gathered that in a bid to ameliorate the impact of the lockdown occasioned by the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic in most states in Nigeria, the Zinox Group, through its ingenious initiative has been committed to feeding over 7000 Nigerian families for two weeks through its staff spread across the various states in Nigeria.
To this end, the management of the Zinox Group which includes concerns such as Zinox Technologies Ltd; TD Africa; Task Systems Ltd; TD Plus; TDiLife, among others; as well as the Konga Group – with its growing subsidiaries such as Konga Travel; KongaPay; and Kxpress, among others – has decided to use its staff across all its network of branches to disperse the food across the nooks and crannies of Nigeria to reach the under-reached and under-served populations.
The initiative, a brain-child of the Group Chairman, was borne out of the lockdown hardship and suffering he witnessed during his personal visitations to various rural locations and suburbs around town; after donations to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), some churches and states.
Consequently, the Zinox Group has set up a special palliative fund running into millions of Naira from which all employees across Nigeria will have their accounts credited. Every full-time staff in each of the respective companies in the Zinox Group and Konga – from the security man to members of Executive Management – is expected to use the funds received to adopt a minimum of three families; which it will support with essential food items to last them through the next two weeks.
Junior staff in all the companies across Nigeria are expected to nominate and donate the Zinox Group’s special palliatives to at least three needy families around their vicinity while mid-level executives are expected to reach at least five families each, and members of Executive Management will be expected to donate to at least seven families within their locality.
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