How Kenya Railways was duped into putting the noose around its own neck
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001287119/behind-the-sgr-walls
The Kenyans suffer unbelievable levels of racist abuse a the hands of the Chinese that would have made Winston Churchill wince...
Racism is rampant on the railways in Kenya. The Chinese have set up their own apartheid system. At the employee canteen, Kenyans are forbidden from sitting at the same tables as Chinese. Kenyans are also not permitted to share the company's staff vans used by the Chinese.
All the signs are only written in Chinese to prevent the Kenyans from doing many of the jobs.
To get a job on the railroad, Kenyan workers must have at least a civil engineering degree, yet their Chinese masters order them to perform only the most menial of tasks, well below their skill levels. If a Kenyan refuses to perform menial work as ordered, he can be...wait for it...physically punished.
Chinese workers are paid four times more for the same job than the Kenyans.
I can't believe how badly the Chinese treat the Kenyans in their own country. It's one thing to find yourself trapped overseas and in defacto slavery, but it is something entirely different to be subjected to all this in your homeland.
But wait, it gets better...
There are 40 Kenyan locomotive drivers working for the railway, but the Chinese never let them operate any of trains. The Kenyans are just 'poster boys.' The Chinese are supposed to be training Kenyans to do the technical jobs, but according to one Kenyan train locomotive driver who has been working at the company for over a year, "We just sit at the back and watch. There is no actual transfer of skills that is happening here."
Chinese workers blatantly violate the rules (and are allowed to get away with it) -- smoking inside the trains, urinating on train tracks, and an array of other violations that would immediately get a Kenyan worker fired.
The Chinese train drivers also routinely run over lions and other African wildlife. An act of gross disregard for the local wildlife that Kenyan operated railways were careful to avoid killing.
And the worst of it? The corrupt Kenyan government continues to back the Chinese against their own people.
Is this what will happen to Dominicans?
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001287119/behind-the-sgr-walls
The Kenyans suffer unbelievable levels of racist abuse a the hands of the Chinese that would have made Winston Churchill wince...
Racism is rampant on the railways in Kenya. The Chinese have set up their own apartheid system. At the employee canteen, Kenyans are forbidden from sitting at the same tables as Chinese. Kenyans are also not permitted to share the company's staff vans used by the Chinese.
All the signs are only written in Chinese to prevent the Kenyans from doing many of the jobs.
To get a job on the railroad, Kenyan workers must have at least a civil engineering degree, yet their Chinese masters order them to perform only the most menial of tasks, well below their skill levels. If a Kenyan refuses to perform menial work as ordered, he can be...wait for it...physically punished.
Chinese workers are paid four times more for the same job than the Kenyans.
I can't believe how badly the Chinese treat the Kenyans in their own country. It's one thing to find yourself trapped overseas and in defacto slavery, but it is something entirely different to be subjected to all this in your homeland.
But wait, it gets better...
There are 40 Kenyan locomotive drivers working for the railway, but the Chinese never let them operate any of trains. The Kenyans are just 'poster boys.' The Chinese are supposed to be training Kenyans to do the technical jobs, but according to one Kenyan train locomotive driver who has been working at the company for over a year, "We just sit at the back and watch. There is no actual transfer of skills that is happening here."
Chinese workers blatantly violate the rules (and are allowed to get away with it) -- smoking inside the trains, urinating on train tracks, and an array of other violations that would immediately get a Kenyan worker fired.
The Chinese train drivers also routinely run over lions and other African wildlife. An act of gross disregard for the local wildlife that Kenyan operated railways were careful to avoid killing.
And the worst of it? The corrupt Kenyan government continues to back the Chinese against their own people.
Is this what will happen to Dominicans?
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