Chinese threatens to shoot workers
COMMENT - I guess this is the new 'normal'. This is what happens when you are not seen to deal decisively with this kind of behaviour.Chinese threatens to shoot workers
By Salim Dawood
Sun 07 Nov. 2010, 03:59 CAT
POLICE have arrested a Lusaka-based Chinese national for threatening to shoot his workers. The Chinese man was arrested yesterday and detained at Emasdale Police Station after his garden boy, Sankulani Phiri and his wife, Monica Sitali, a maid, reported that their employer threatened to shoot them on Friday evening.
Emasdale Police recorded a warn and caution statement from Bo Khan of house number 11068, Ngwezi Road in Roma Township before charging him for threatening violence.
Emmasdale Police officers could not give more details on the matter and referred all queries to Police spokesperson Ndandula Siamana who also referred queries to Lusaka division commanding officer Greenwell Nguni.
But when contacted, Nguni said he had not yet received report on the matter.
And narrating their ordeal in an interview, the couple said their employer threatened to shoot them after she asked for permission to go and buy food from the neighbouring Chipata Compound on Friday evening.
Monica narrated that they live in a servant’s quarter within Bo’s yard.
“When I asked him (Bo), he told me to go and call my husband but when I called him, he chased both us saying ‘get out’. I sat on the verandah wondering how we would work with such an employer because he locks us in the yard from morning to evening,” she narrated.
Monica says she was surprised to see Bo coming out of the house with a pistol which he pointed at her husband before turning to her, threatening to shoot both of them.
“He told us that we wanted to steal the money which he was counting, but I apologised to him saying I did not even know that he was counting any money,” she said.
Monica said after 30 minutes, Bo asked her and husband to pack their belongings and leave because he did not want to see them.
She said a Mr Zimba was then instructed to drive and dump the couple in Makeni using Bo’s bus.
Labels: CHINESE, GREENWELL NG'UNI, LABOUR, NDANDULA SIAMANA
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