Malawi on Tuesday revoked a business licence belonging to a Pakistani national for engaging children in child labour at his business premises in the capital Lilongwe recently.
Secretary for Labour Ministry Patrick Kabambe said in Lilongwe that the government had closed a restaurant belonging to a Mr Abba and revoked his business licence, a Pakistani national for engaging children age between 13 to 15, to remove wastage in a sewer tank.
\"He has violated labour laws at the same time the rights of children for allowing them to remove the wastage without protecting clothes,\" he said.
He said in the employment act provisions there is a prohibition of child labour, removal of hazardous work and registering young persons to do work – measures which he has violated by using young children as a source of cheap labour instead of hiring a sewer tanker to remove the wastages.
He said the ministry in collaboration with the Malawi police have also arrested the man and he will appear before the court of law probably this week, failing which he would face deportation.
The authorities acted on the businessman following Monday\’s publication of a front page story titled, \"Shocking: Boys Empty Sewer,\" which appeared in the The Nation newspaper with photographs of the youngsters completely soaked in feces in a sewage tank with no protective clothing.
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
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