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Game Stores Manager Caught In SEX Scandals And Other Crimes
Game stores manager vincent Palan has been summoned by the Labour Commission after company employees accused him of sexual harrasmnet, verbal abuse and intimidation.
And former game stores secretary Brenda Mpoya has described Palan as an abusive boss.
But when contacted to give his side of story, Palan refused to saying he would not give any interviews because the company lawyer were handling the case.
Meanwhile Labour Minister Fackson Shamenda says government will take stern actions if the investigations prove Palan guilty as accused.
Palan spent most of His afternoon at the Labour office in Lusaka after a written complaint by former employee Mukamuluti Mwila.
Earlier, Mwila who was accompanied by Game union executives and three other employees to the post accused Palan of sexual harassment, verbal abuse and intimidation. Mwila disclosed that Palan on three occasions touched her in a sexual way during working hours and threatened to fire her if she did not oblige to his sexual overtures.
“ The first time he touched the inside of my thighs and I moved away.
I felt very uncomfortable but he proceeded and touched my upper thighs and even removed my underwear “. Mwila said before she broke down in tears.
Mwila had earlier copied her complaint letter to the post but the editorial team decided they would only publish the story after talking to her and Palan.
Mwila said Palan on several occasions attempted to touch her breast and bums and bums and wanted to have sex with her if she wanted to be promoted or have a brighter future in the store.
“On several occasions, he has told me he wants me to sleep with him, meaning (having sex with him).
He said he could not imagine why it had not happened yet.
He proudly said he was not a type of man that takes a lady to a bar or club.
He said he was going to take me straight to bed and have sex with me as he did not want to waste any time”. She said.
Mwila said after she refused to have sex with Palan, he made her job a ‘living hell’.
She said Palan also ensured that she was put out of work because she had refused to have sex with him.
“We as casual workers are paid depending on the number of hours we put in and he ensured that when I reported he had I sent back”. She explained.
Mwila said she had just completed grade 12 and was only trying to raise college fees and pursue a college marketing degree.
“It wasn’t only me he treated like this but I couldn’t do it, that man he’s old enough to be my father or older, others have obliged for fear of losing their jobs and I just couldn’t” she said.
Mwila said in an attemp to cushion her complaint, Palan had alleged directed the Human Resource Manager, Evaristo Hakayobe, to have a meeting with her and her aunt, Moono Mwila who is Zambia’s Ladies Gold union president in order to persuade her to drop the charges.
In a recording made available to the post, Hakayobe and Moone asked Mwila to consider dropping the charges and said she was been used by her colleagues and legal aid where she has reported the matter to.
When contacted yesterday, Moono refused to comment from the recording, Hakayobe told Mwila not to go ahead of her charges and told her she would end up losing her job and her things in life.”
In a separate case an email was obtained by the post sent to Palan on 7, November 2013, by a lady only identified as Stacy accusing him of sexually abusing her. The email read :” Hey you think I forgot what you did to me in your office at game city, hope you enjoyed yourself, you threatened me with my job and laughed at me in my face when I told you that I had missed my period. F***ing animal. This is just the start. I wonder how many girls you did this to and now you are a store manager, let’s see for how long.”
And former stores secretary Brenda Mpoya confirmed that she had seen the email and Palan ordered that she discards the mail, and everybody else does the same.
She further added that communications between the two continued and Palan and the woman currently have a child.
Mpoya added that when she worked with Palan he was an abusive boss.
“Palan does not know how to treat human beings be it married, female or male, even when you have a child who is sick, he does not allow to take the child to the clinic he scolds you and tells you all sorts of things, Mpoya said.
“I never had sexual advances from him because I never gave him a chance, I ensured that even with his jokes I kept a distance.”
Mpoya added that palan may have tried to make advances at her but she put her foot down but she could not allow it.
When contacted to give his side of the story regarding all the accusation made against him, Palan said he would not give any interviews because the company lawyers were handling the case.
He said he was not even aware of a sexual case against him in South Africa.
“I do not know anything about that, and I cannot talk to you at the moment, the case is with the lawyers.” He said.
And when asked which lawyers were handling the case palan abruptly cut the line.
And Shamenda said the ministry would take stern action if the investigations prove
Palan guilty, as accused.
However, some employees at game stores said Shamenda was compromised because he was a very good friend of Palan.
“When Shamenda comes to game, he gets ridiculous discount for example, last week he came to buy a tent at our store. The tent cost K8,800 but he was given the tent at K5000 and this happens a lot when he’s in the store, and you will find when he’s in the store, Palan is the one who pushes the trolley even the Human Resource manager. No one else is allowed to attend to him.” One of the employees said.
“We have had other customers for example, Winter Kabimba comes here a lot, Jean Kapata, Wilbur Simusa but none of them are given such discount or given such attention.”
But when queried about the allegations, Shamenda said he received the same discount as all other customers, when I shop from game it is during the same period like everyone, that is on Wednesday or Thursday and I get the same discount as everybody else.
I know Mr Palan as the manager of the store and I was of the view that they were just being courteous to a VIP. He is not the only one I know. Mr Mwimba and some of the female officers in the place, some actually came from Ndola,” He said.
And Shamenda said he was surprised that Palan would exhibit would exhibit such behavior and maintained that their friendship could not interfere with any investigations.
“I do not tolerate such things, I have been going there and shopping there and I have even asked the union officials about their conditions and told them I would like to know about their working conditions, I would like to have good conditions, especially in a place where I go. It is a place where I always shop, the conditions must be good,” he said.
“And after investigation, if this is proved, stern action will have to be taken, the law will have to take its course, they are no sacred cows as far as I’m concerned, we do not tolerate such things and I expect people who know me to act exemplary.”
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JOHN MAZYU
August 13, 2014 at 9:30 pm
Foolish man•arrest the bagger•let him not run away•Mr Kambwili intervane plz
pupwe - chulu
August 13, 2014 at 9:30 pm
mwipayeeee,, ukutemwa kasamusa…
JOHN MAZYU
August 13, 2014 at 9:37 pm
Let him be in Police custody till he goes to court•I think da idiot eats MUTOTOTO“VUBBWE“ Very stupid ,Idiot man•castrate him•exchange him with Gen Kanene
JOHN MAZYU
August 13, 2014 at 10:27 pm
Mwila also u ar to blame•very bad dressing exposing yo thighz like dat mu shot•and iz he not da same old man u possed a photo with•ulihule naiwe•hw do u let him touch u and keep quit•i believe u gave in bakumpampula fye abanobe•u ar also a REFLAF•uli wa life sana mwaiche•iyo nausebana •tamwapusana na IRIS its only dat iwe nabakumpampula UMUKOTE WOBE•U will remain NAUSEBANA•Yo aunt iz also a FOOL •She iz also da GIRL FREND to dat IDIOT•U ar a WRONG UZILESS Family•Dats why iam going for READ FOR MARRIAGE and NOT READY FOR OLD FOOLISH MAN so called YO BOSS •SWICH ON WECHIPUBA
Terms and Conditions
August 13, 2014 at 10:41 pm
” The first time he touched the inside of my thighs and I moved away.
I felt very uncomfortable but he proceeded and touched my upper thighs and even removed my underwear “. Mwila said. Mwila naiwe to an xtent of removing yo underwear, you just watched him?. Maybe you had agreed on something now that it happened that he breached an agreement you thot of xposing. Fingi fichitika. Only the 2 of u were there anyway.
sulutan
August 13, 2014 at 10:51 pm
summarize yr article too long for nothing
umuntu mutwe
August 14, 2014 at 1:20 am
Dressing alikuchitafye bwino tell him to pay the balance for having sex with him chapwa
kakolwe
August 14, 2014 at 3:55 am
Iwe ciPalan, next time you should also use your company lawyers to fukc those gullible employees. You are even saying my lawyers, my lawyers! Please company lawyers, ditch the burger, his dikc, is not a company property nor is it covered in his conditions of service, is it?
Oracle
August 14, 2014 at 12:03 pm
LOL
Manhimself
August 14, 2014 at 7:04 am
Palan just like his name “mu paleni”he’s not worthy of a boss,he is a destroyer to human life, a threat to life and Shamenda also should be questioned surely can’t you asked yourself to say “why all this abnormal discount from 8,800 to 5,000, 3,800 discount Oh my God,I want to purchase the DJs system I will make sure that I time for Shamenda so that I can receive the same discount.
Oracle
August 14, 2014 at 11:50 am
Splendid message!!!
JOHN MAZYU
August 14, 2014 at 7:15 am
Very stupid girl
pompwe
August 14, 2014 at 8:12 am
ati fackson shamenda,foolish idiot.that man is an imbacile.
kasantana
August 14, 2014 at 8:28 am
Palan,pay the balance.This is the story
Live Counsel
August 14, 2014 at 9:12 am
Ladies/girls have the ability to say NO, with a big deceiving SMILE, that’s your WEAPON, Please USE IT. There’s no need to lose your job over an abusive boss. Learn to handle & manage your bosses by doing your work, not looking for FAVOURS.
Oracle
August 14, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Live Counsel, you are absolutely right.
Female employees should
“Learn to handle & manage their bosses by doing the work, not looking for FAVOURS”
CHIZ~MAN
August 14, 2014 at 9:13 am
Rubbish!!
Zalimba Alfred
August 14, 2014 at 9:32 am
Honuorable Kambwili please do something about this
Kape
August 14, 2014 at 9:47 am
AWE BALEUMFWANA PLEASE BAKASHANA LET US BEHAIVE IN A MANNER SOME ONE CAN RESPECT US AND ALSO LOOK AT OUR DRESS CORD BCOZ NOW DAYS ITS VERY POOR THAT’S WHY THIS FOOLISH MAN DRAW ATTENTION TO SEE WHAT IS SHE DRESSED ALL THE TIME. TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE IT TOOK TIME TO REPORT THE CASE WHAT WAS THE PROMISE MR. MAPULI MADE TO HER? SHE SHOULD TELL US AS CONCERNED CITIZENS PROBLEM IN ZAMBIA POVERTY AND IGNORANT MAY GOD DELIVER US FROM THIS SPIRIT
peter
August 14, 2014 at 10:07 am
Most zambian ladies are abused by these managers for fear of losing their jobs…. More over they are paid low salaries…. Let the law punish the bagger.. So dat other managers many learn..
Makumba Kangwa
August 14, 2014 at 10:36 am
Shamenda you are useless!!!!
memory
August 14, 2014 at 10:42 am
Deport him with immediate effect,that name sounds foreign
nabanda
August 14, 2014 at 10:48 am
Terms and Conditions your comments leave little to be desired.
Put yourself in this gals shoes. Many gals compromise in such situations, not that they want but because they have no say, are not believed and they desperately need the money.
Let us sympathize with such issues. A lot of so called bosses get away with such behaviour
bamuntu
August 14, 2014 at 11:07 am
ewe ka mwila obvious walemfwa bwino kusamukutweboko lelo. i thnk he was payn yonse amataches wulondwelele nomba iyoine touch iyakusesh nika maybe not paid infull,u ar nt convicin me.
Banga
August 14, 2014 at 11:25 am
whatever happened is not good but its time Zambians we stand for fellow Zambians. Those that hv travelled by bus to South Africa know what happens at beit bridge by south africans on other nationalities. Zambians lets begin to know this nation belongs to u and these so called investors have were they come from and they cant allow u push them to extrems in their land. Ministers and who ever is given authority to protects Zambians, take the interest of the nation at heart before discounts
Oracle
August 14, 2014 at 12:02 pm
Thanks Banga, well spoken.
Denkete
August 14, 2014 at 12:21 pm
balemwikata mumatanta nasulakofye aleloleshafye!!!!!
IF NOT
August 14, 2014 at 2:33 pm
ndelolesha fye!
Most anoid
August 14, 2014 at 2:40 pm
Awe napapa ine Mwe. Efyo tukalaikala ifi sure?
KELLY PULE
August 15, 2014 at 8:30 am
This scenario is virtually common in all these companies and departments.
Women have been Used and most of them like it Because they fail to turn down such proposes.
Olga
August 15, 2014 at 11:47 am
Only Mr Kambwili can sort out this issue on behalf of our beloved president. This Palan is a friend to Mr ……….. He can even escort him shopping around within the said place. Wil c if ths guy will b sorted out accordingly. We are watchin
ba zed
August 15, 2014 at 8:13 pm
Useless and stupid girl sam1 is touching amatanta to an extent of touching yo underware u are just quiet u can’t even scream