Kisumu Asian tycoon woes – Weekly Citizen

The stage is now set for a major showdown between workers of a shopping mall in Kisumu pitting workers, their employer, the civil society and the county labour office that has been embroiled in the circus. At the centre of the row, is the recent mass sacking of workers at Pramukh Cash and Curry, where a number of employees claim that they had been fired without any procedural, Already, the Kisumu county labour officer Charles Gondori has summoned the proprietor of the mall Mahesh Patel to come and give an explanation over the highly contentious matter. Gondori said the law does not allow workers to be sacked without due process being followed as per the labour law prescribed.

The director of an organisation going by the name Kisumu town residents voice Audi Ogada condemned Patel for flouting labour laws when dealing with his employees. Ogada, a former aide late combative Kisumu mayor Lawrence Oile pleaded with Patel to address the pertinent matters raised by the workers. Ogada in the petition said that Patel has been thriving on dishonesty, using power excessively, breach of trust, abuse of the rule of law, non compliance to labour regulations, and threatened to move to court over the matter.