Kenyan Wits

A UoN graduate engineer has come out to narrate a disheartening story of the inhumane working conditions he had to persevere while working under an exploitative Indian employer. Wyregi who graduated in September 2019 with a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering found himself working as a bottle top packaging slave at Metal Crowns Limited located in Industrial Area and discovered the depths of ruthlessness that Hindi employers are famous for. He was required to work for 18 hours with a 10-minute break for meals daily, meals that would be deducted together with taxes, from their meagre salary considering the serious profits the company makes. Wyregi’s story is just one of the many stories we hear daily of foreigners who come to our country and put Kenyans into suffering and basing their acts on the high unemployment rate in the country. The other day a Chinese national was recorded on camera caning employees . But you know the saddest thing about it all? These foreign nationals continue to ...

Every day millions of shillings, illegally acquired, are stashed in bags and moved around secretly from place to place exchanging hands and deposited in bank accounts while Wanjiku struggles to put a meal on the table. This money that would have been used to incentivize the daily struggle of Wanjiku, is swiftly and easily tricking down to the pockets of a few individuals who then begin the process of making it untraceable and ‘clean’. Wanjiku’s fate is sealed, she was born to suffer, and the system is here to ensure that. Meanwhile, Mheshimiwa drives big cars and lives life in the first lane. He believes in the system. The system will protect him. This might disturb your conscience but the greatest undoing that begot Kenya might have been the early independence we attained. Of course, the colonial rule had its problems but at least there was order; economic and judicial order. Social order was amiss courtesy of the authoritarian and discriminative rule evident with the British Colonial...