Kenyan Journalist in US Court Alleging Racial Discrimination

By Chris Wamalwa in USA

A Kenyan US based journalist and two other African immigrants have gone to court and sued a Jewish organization in the US for racial discrimination.

Peter Makori, a resident of Kansas city who originally hails from Kisii in Kenya and Abdi Murasaal and Bakar Abdalla from Somalia have sued Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) of Kansas City for damages claiming they were dismissed from their employment because their boss, of Caucasian origin (white) discriminated against them due to their race, skin color and national origins.

he three, through their lawyer, Brian Barjenbruch complained in their suit papers filed in the circuit court of Kansas City Missouri, that a white female employee who was herself not punished committed the mistakes that led to their dismissals from work.

They also filed their complaints at the Missouri State Human Rights Commission, the Kansas City human relations department and the Federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC). Makori and Abdallah worked as refugee resettlement case managers at the JVS, while Mursaal was their general manager at the organization’s Centre for New Americans.

They are seeking millions of shillings in compensation for unfairly losing their jobs and other inconveniences. They claim in their suit papers the fact their colleague who is white was never punished despite evidence of impropriety on her job performance showed that they were victims of racial discrimination.

The Standard