{"id":213902,"date":"2025-11-17T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-cotu-wants-foreign-investor-filmed-assaulting-kenyan-worker-deported\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:18:22","slug":"kenya-cotu-wants-foreign-investor-filmed-assaulting-kenyan-worker-deported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-cotu-wants-foreign-investor-filmed-assaulting-kenyan-worker-deported\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: COTU Wants Foreign Investor Filmed Assaulting Kenyan Worker Deported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli, in a letter to Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen, said the viral video&#8211;which shows the man slapping and shoving a Kenyan employee&#8211;reflects a worsening pattern&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511170157.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":213903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,24589,48177,7249,20751,5169,20578,4688,430,4524,257,254,8196],"class_list":["post-213902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assaulting","tag-cotu","tag-deported","tag-filmed","tag-foreign","tag-investor","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-worker"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}