A CITY security firm, Armor Group, last week fired it’s employee, Patrice Mpunga for reportedly leaking a story to The New Times.A fortnight ago, Mpunga walked to the paper’s office in Kimihurura crying that he and other guards were getting half salaries at the end of every month. The firm’s managers were reportedly angered by the story, resulting in his sacking.Mpunga claimed there was an internal syndicate in the company that involved diverting part of the guards’ salaries before it could be deposited to their bank accounts.“My boss summoned me over the story and I admitted before him that it was me who talked to The New Times,” Mpunga said shortly after his dismissal last Tuesday.Armor Group Rwanda is a registered and legally licensed security company in the country.The firm currently employs over five hundred Rwandans and is charged with protecting US properties, among others. Mpunga said: “Though I have been sacked, I am happy that the world has known the unfairness of this company. I became a sacrificial lamb so that my colleagues can work in a better environment.”The company’s Managing Director, Regis Arnold, said Mpunga was sacked because he leaked a company’s confidential document to a journalist.“We had a one year contract with him but it prevents him leaking the company’s confidential documents to the outsiders,” Arnold explained.According to the payroll Arnold showed journalists, the company paid the guards on August, 20 and all got their money except Mpunga who had a short-fall of Frw4, 000 which was paid later. He said that some of the guards’ salaries delayed to reach their respective accounts because the concerned banks did not do their work in time.But Mpunga alleges that he was paid Frw40, 000 after this newspaper wrote the story.“I am going to sue these people. Let them not imagine things will stop there because I was sacked unfairly,” Mpunga threatened.He further alleges his three fellow victims were ‘forced’ to write to the management disassociating themselves from the initial story and heaping praises on the company.Speaking from his office last Thursday, Arnold showed this reporter three letters written by Silas Ntacyasigaye, Faustin Rukeratabaro and Ferdinand Nambajimana, all guards, describing the company as very ‘accommodative.’Ends
