It has been six months since the Italian Mafias (Ventriglias) took over the Zambezi Portland Cement Factory with the help of goons. April 7, 2015 marked the day when this unfortunate event took place. News with respect to growing levels of cash embezzlements and worker ill-treatment has continued to flow out of the factory and has circumstances have reached a level where the workers are no longer expecting anything in return for their hard work.
Non-payment of salary
As soon as the Ventriglia family took over the affairs of the factory, the first thing that they did was snatched the salaries of the workers. When the workers claimed their salary, they were asked to recover the same from Dr. Rajan Mahtani. This was a very sad situation for the workers as they have a family to feed.
Termination of workers
Soon after the Zambezi Portland Cement factory started to incur losses due to heavy cash withdrawal and poor management, the Ventriglias found it apt to fire some of the workers because they had no work for them. This resulted in termination of 47 workers without being given an opportunity to be heard.
Tampering Records with PACRA
The most shameful event in Ndola took place when a lawyer of the Ventriglia family forced a junior officer to make some changes as per the requirements of the Ventriglias. The change was made in the PACRA’s register and without the consent of the High Court. Later, the changes were reversed when the authority learnt about the shameful incident.
Apart from the aforesaid, there has been numerous other incidents in the premise of Zambezi Portland Cement Factory, which has resulted in continuous losses for the factory. Life at Zambezi Portland Cement Factory has come to a complete halt after the departure of Dr. Rajan Mahtani and Finsbury Investment from the management of the factory.