Thika-based food manufacturer “Superfine Africa Nuts” has become the latest Kenyan company to feature on cnyakundi.com over accusations of employee exploitation.
Just two days ago, as we covered a similar case of mistreatment raised by disgruntled personnel at Equator Bottlers Limited in Kisumu, it was worthily acknowledged that in the absence of COTU Boss Francis Atwoli – who absconded his duties for politics – this blog has effectively picked up the role of truly fighting for the oppressed Kenyan worker.
Ever since he joined the election campaign trail of Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, rogue corporations and firms have enjoyed unrestricted leeway in oppressing helpless workers.
In our continuing “Slavery in Kenya” series, companies like Blowplast, Safepak, Flower City, Orbit Chemicals, Vitafoam, and Chandaria Industries, among many others, are heavily mentioned.
They force countless workers to endure slavery-era conditions just to take home peanuts in the name of wages.
As reported by our latest source, disheartened workers are experiencing the same situation at “Superfine Africa Nuts”.
They force them to work long hours with no overtime payments and have zero regard for job security.
Contracts are randomly ended at the management’s will.
To make matters worse, they force the same enslaved employees to smile and laugh whenever auditors come knocking on the door.
It is an unwritten rule that everyone is required to declare that the company reimburses them for extra hours, when in fact, this could not be further from the truth.
Insiders have linked the struggles at the factory to an abrupt change in operations occasioned by the unforeseen death of its original founder and owner.
It is now managed by the wife of the late owner and his elder brother.
“Hi Nyakundi,
Kindly do not reveal my identity.
There’s a Macadamia Company in Thika named Superfine Africa Nuts mistreating workers.
Long working hours with no overtime payment, contracts are terminated without any genuine explanation.
The original owner of the company died last year at a time like this and everything in the company changed.
It is now managed by his elder brother and the wife to the late owner.
When audits are done, people are told to lie to the auditors how they receive overtime for the extra hours worked.
People are poorly paid.
They don’t pay service
People are working there because they don’t have any option.
For me, I couldn’t just bear it.
I’ve worked in that company for many years, but I just gave up and left,” the source writes.
