Citi FM’s <\/strong>Philip Ashon, the victim said she wants justice to prevail to serve as a deterrent to both foreign and local employers maltreating their workers.<\/p>\n\u201cI want justice to prevail so that next time when these people come here and work with us, they will know that we have our right to say what is bothering us.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also recounted her ordeal, saying: \u201cIt was on Sunday, I went to work so after the rain stopped, I was at my department and one Supervisor called me to go and help someone to blend fresh pepper because there was pressure so I went to the Rice department . While I was blending the pepper, the blender was making noise \u2026Then all of a sudden Mr . Jihad appeared and started shouting on me and insulting me, asking me whether I did not know I was destroying the blender , then I told him: \u2018Mr. Jihad it is just fresh pepper.\u2019 Before I could open my mouth again, he put my face inside the blender and when I tried taking my face from blender, the pepper split into my eyes and my face\u2026All I could do was to cry.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also revealed some unfavourable conditions employees at Marwako go through before their salaries are paid.<\/p>\n
She disclosed\u00a0that their phones are often seized when they arrive at the workplace, and that they are sometimes forced to work beyond the stipulated hours.<\/p>\n
Evelyn Boakye earns 300 cedis a month.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cWhen the month ends, two weeks before they pay or sometimes a week before they pay us. It is high time we let them know we are in our country. Not that if they do something wrong, they give us small money to shut our mouths. It is high time we let them know that we are in our country, not in their country. We cannot go into their country and do this. It will never happen. And moreover their ladies are not working, we are working so they should not treat us like slaves.”<\/p>\n
She also revealed how some of her Ghanaian colleagues at the workplace including a Ghanaian supervisor, disagreed with her decision to demand justice and rather encouraged her to take money from the managers as compensation.<\/p>\n
She said when the incident happened, her Ghanaian supervisor, one Ali, told her that she wasn’t the first person to have experienced that treatment at the Restaurant, and so she shouldn’t make an issue out of it.<\/p>\n
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