Kenya: COTU Wants Foreign Investor Filmed Assaulting Kenyan Worker Deported

Nairobi — The Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) has demanded the immediate deportation of a Chinese manager filmed assaulting a Kenyan worker at the TCM Mabati Factory in Eldoret, escalating pressure on the government to crack down on alleged labour abuses by foreign investors.

COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli, in a letter to Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen, said the viral video–which shows the man slapping and shoving a Kenyan employee–reflects a worsening pattern…