Somehow, Tororo Cement officials got news that the story would be run in today’s Monitor and called my editor, who told them, thankfully, that he wasn’t running the story.

Hmm…. this issue runs deep.

Here is the story, and a bit below too.

GABRIEL Okolong’s problems began when he was injured on the job on May 2.
But his problems didn’t end at the edges of the charred skin around his arm,
burnt by hot cement from malfunctioning motor in the compressor room of the
Tororo Cement factory, some 350 kilometres east of Kampala.

Instead, his injury was a catalyst for a much bigger set of problems that
would soon affect him and several of his coworkers. Mr Okolong now considers
himself out of the job because of the same problems.After Daily Monitor
published the article “Tororo Cement workers bitter over maltreatment,” on May
24, which detailed how Tororo Cement refused to pay the medical bills incurred
by Mr Okolong as a result of the accident, he and several of his co-workers
found their problems burgeoning.