Liu Jiaqi, the man who called President Uhuru Kenyatta a monkey, has been working in the country for over eight months now.
The man nicknamed as ‘Judge’ at the Ruiru based motor cycling company – Sonlink (K) Limited- was caught on camera hurling insults at a Kenyan employee and threatening to sack him when he returns back to china.
“The company has about 8 Chinese and 12 Kenyans and all the Chinese here are our bosses and we do not know who is the overall boss. Insults here are a common occurrence and we just persevere to keep our jobs,” the employee said.
According to an employee of the company, the incident happened after a business trip to Machakos went wrong. “We went for a business trip, looking after our customers. Our official vehicle was busy so that is why we used an Uber.”
The team had visited Matuu and Machakos soliciting new business for their motorcycles assembled in Ruiru. But the Uber driver had under estimated the work ahead after they ended up spending five days on the road. He would complain that he had under quoted since he was not told the full details of their trip.
After the standoff persisted, the Uber driver decided to report the matter to a police station in Machakos. He was demanding for Sh12,000 more for the job done but after negotiating at the police station, they agreed that their Chinese host pays an extra Sh6000 instead.
After he was paid the Uber driver drove off and left them stranded at the police station and they had to look for other means back to Nairobi. It is after they left the police station that their Chinese master became hostile. He was livid and hostile. He started hurling insults all the way to their offices in Ruiru and accusing his Kenyan employee of doing nothing to help him.
“The Chinese was not happy. He was angry that the Kenyan on the trip was not helpful. When he arrived in the office he reported the matter to other Chinese managers here and asked that the Kenyan is fined,” the employee narrated.
“He wanted to fine him Sh2000 or give him a warning letter and that is when the matter escalated and he started insulting us saying we look like monkeys and are poor,” he said.
This comes a day after President Uhuru Kenyatta completed a visit in China to secure Kenya more loans.