“Ugandans protest at Chinese embassy over unpaid salaries” 17 January 2023

About 10 Ugandans yesterday held a peaceful protest at the Chinese Embassy in Kampala over failure by a Chinese company to pay their three-year salary arrears.

During the protest, security guards attached to Hash Security Company Limited threatened to arrest the protestors who stood outside the embassy gate on Malcolm X Avenue in Kololo, a city suburb.

The protesters were holding a red cloth banner written in Chinese, asking the embassy to compel the company, China National Complant, to settle their arrears. [...]

According to the letter, the lawyers said Blue Sea Company was subcontracted by China National Complant to construct the National Medical Stores warehouse at Kajjansi, which work was duly concluded.

However, China National Complant has not paid them $52,000 (Shs190m), leaving about 20 employees of Blue Sea Company Ltd financially constrained. [...]

When contacted, Mr Chen Wen, the project manager from China National Complant, acknowledged the delayed payment, which he attributed to Covid-19 and the death of their chief executive officer.

“We are the main contractor for Kajjansi Medical Stores but we subcontracted Blue Sea to do the aluminum doors, partitions and Windows. The work was done two or three years ago, there is a balance they are demanding. We have some cash flow issues, the passing on of our managing director and the Covid-19, delayed payments by the client NMS but the problem is from our internal systems,” he said.