NAIROBI
HOUSE HELP SPILLS THE BEANS AFTER BEING FORCED TO WASH CORPSE EVERYDAY AT GUN
POINT
- The woman was employed as a house help in
Pangani, Nairobi
- Her employer, Mohammed Abdi Noor, paid her
KSh 6,500 as monthly salary
- She
was ordered to wash a corpse stashed under a bed and the new task saw her
salary increased to KSh 7,000
- The
woman declined and was kicked out without two-months pay A 27-year-old woman
stunned a Nairobi Court after she sued her former boss who she claimed withheld
her two months wages after she declined to wash a corpse hidden under his bed.
The case was filed before Kibera Senior Principal Magistrate Elizabeth Juma who
was informed that Mohammed Abdi Noor refused to pay the petitioner KSh 13,000.
In her statement, the woman said she worked for
Noor as a house help and he had agreed to pay KSh her 6,500 monthly, but the
pay was increased by KSh 500 after she was ordered to take up the new
assignment. “One week after I started working for the family, Noor’s wife told
me that if my work remained as impressive, she would give me a KSh 500 raise to
the KSh 6,500 that I was earning. She added that they had a new assignment for
me, which her husband would brief me about later,” she stated.
According to the woman, the male body was
wrapped in a mat and hidden under his employer's bed in an apartment in
Pangani, Nairobi. “He asked me to push the bed away from the wall. I stepped on
something and when I looked down, I jumped in shock. “He said I will be
required to clean the corpse. When I declined, he shoved his gun at me and said
I would do it by force,” the court was told.
The woman said the instructions of sprucing the
lifeless body included using water, bath gel and face towel. The dead man, her
employer stated, was to be cleaned from the face, body and down to its groin
region. The court was also informed that a man, who her employers branded to as
doctor, would come to the house regularly to treat the body. Noor's wife also
warned her against touching money which appeared under the corpse. “She told me
the doctor came to treat the body so it does not smell. She also warned me to
touch the wad of money that mysteriously appeared below the body at my own
risk,” the woman quoted words of her employers wife. On Friday, September 28,
she alleges Noor got violent with her after she declined to perform the new
task. She claimed her employer sexually assaulted her and also beat her, an
altercation that attracted his wife who was asleep. The woman was later thrown
out of the house without payment of her two-months work. This prompted her to
report the matter to the police, FIDA Kenya, Ministry of Labour, Kenya Human
Rights Commission and Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu). Her employer
was arrested and charged with declining to pay her and also holding a body and
stopping it from being buried.
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