Three members of staff at Central East African Railways (CEAR) were sent on suspension following their arrest on trumped up charges whose court case was eventually withdrawn at the instructions of the company’s top management that initiated the arrest.
A petition by the staff, which Nyasa Times has seen, has since been sent to Ministry of Labour accusing CEAR of serious abuse of work ethics that is happening at the company, which was formerly owned by the government as Malawi Railways.
A CEAR locomotive
The letter to the Ministry of Labour indicates that one of the employees who was arrested, Bento Maonga was rushing to the bank on 26th of April trying to beat closing time.