BULLY FIGHTING IN FACE OF SEEMING IDENTITY THEFT:
Nigerian born Muslim Hijab-wearing Woman, FOLAKE ADEBOLA in Dallas challenges Chicken Express restaurant for sending her home…’We identified her as Stefane Coleman by our investigation’, Cables News Network
*Converted to Islam in August last year but started working at the restaurant for about three months
* “Once I clocked in, the manager said ‘Take off anything that doesn’t involve Chicken Express,’ which I knew he was talking about my hijab. So I didn’t react, I just went to the back and took off my jacket and my purse. Five minutes later, he called me into the office telling me that I have to take it off because it’s not a part of the work uniform.’ she tell CNN
* Rhett Warren, a lawyer for the operator of the Chicken Express restaurant insisted that the manager who fired Adebola was wrong
BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF & CHRITINA IMADE/SPECIAL CRIME REPORTER, DALLAS
A NIGERIAN born Muslim Hijab-wearing woman, FOLAKE ADEBOLA is fighting Chicken Express management for sending her home due to her looks and religion attachment. She engaged the store manager in altercation and insisted that she did no wrong for holding unto her faith even as she comes to work. But a new information by Cables News Network, CNN, allegedly claiming that their investigation uncovered Folake’s real name to be ‘Stefane Coleman’ may have added a twist case of ‘Identity Theft’ into this matter of public interest.
Folake was sent home from her job in Fort Worth, Dallas, for wearing hijab to work on Monday.Folake Adebola said she converted to Islam in August but started working at the Chicken Express restaurant in October. She’s been at the restaurant for about three months. Although Monday was the first time she wore the hijab to work, Adebola said she told her employer she was a Muslim before she was employed.
“The job requires a specific uniform. That is not part of the specific uniform,” Adebola’s boss was seen telling her in a short clip she posted to her Twitter page. “You as a paid employee cannot wear it.”
Adebola, a 22-year-old single mum whom CNN identified also as Stefane Coleman, said she felt “disrespected” and “upset” about the encounter.
“Once I clocked in, the manager said ‘Take off anything that doesn’t involve Chicken Express,’ which I knew he was talking about my hijab,” she told CNN. “So I didn’t react, I just went to the back and took off my jacket and my purse. Five minutes later, he called me into the office telling me that I have to take it off because it’s not a part of the work uniform.”
Rhett Warren, a lawyer for the operator of the Chicken Express restaurant, said the manager who fired Adebola was wrong. “The manager’s decision to send Ms. Coleman home for wearing the headscarf was due to a lack of training,” Warren said. “The manager was using a strict interpretation of the company policy that does not allow derivations from the standard employee uniform, and he unfortunately did not take religious liberty into consideration.”
Warren said Adebola was paid for the hours she would have worked on Monday. She returned to work on Tuesday after the restaurant owner apologised for the manager’s behaviour.
The questions on the lips of lots of people is: why will Folake overnight identity allegedly turns to Stefane Coleman? Does that mean she is using the legal papers including the Social Security Card of Stefane to work thereby hiding her genuine identity as Folake?
We ill certainly update this developing news story immediately we here from Folake to clear the air on this cloudy angle regarding CNN investigation.
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