Some Gambian employees at MP Trading, an Indian owned company have frowned upon what they call ‘exploitive treatment’ accorded to them by their employer.
MP Trading Gambia Limited is a major dealer in electrical appliances and other household materials.  
Some unnamed Gambian workers at the company who walked into the offices of The Daily News said, their Indian bosses treat them like animals.
“You are donkeys. Look you are doing donkey job in your country,” one of aggrieved workers quoted one of their Indian bosses at one of the company’s outlets.
The Daily News could not give specific details about the employees neither their Indian boss because their complainants fear they could be given their marching orders.
The employees however, complained that their Indian boss threatens them that he has money and could go away with maltreating them by paying off the police.
“I have money and you can’t defend your rights because Gambian police believe nothing, but money,” a young man in his thirties quoted their Indian boss as saying.
According to the employees, they are made to work from 8:00am to 8:00pm. They said, no appointment letter was issued to them, no social security benefits and are sacked without prior warning.
“We have no hope to secure job anywhere else so we have to bear the brunt,” says one of them.
“I will be sacked if my name appears in your publication. I have to speak out because am fed-up with the way we are being treated.”