A Chinese national who was seen whipping a Kenyan worker in a video clip that went viral online on Saturday has been arrested.
Deng Hailan, 49, was videotaped caning a male Kenyan waiter at Chez Wou Restaurant in Nairobi’s Kileleshwa area for allegedly reporting late to work. He was arrested after officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) raided the restaurant on Sunday morning.
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In a statement posted on Twitter, the DCI said the detectives also discovered that Hailan, who works at the hotel as a chef, does not have a work permit.
Also arrested during the operation were three other Chinese nationals. Two of them, Chang Yueping and Ou Qiang, who are both chefs at the eatery, were arrested for allegedly holding expired visas while the third, Yu Ling, a cashier, was apprehended for holding a visitor’s visa but without a work permit.
Eight Kenyan nationals working at the restaurant were also taken to Kilimani Police Station to assist in investigations, the DCI said.
On Saturday evening, the Chinese Embassy in Kenya responded to the viral video by urging Kenyan authorities to investigate the incident and punish the culprit if found guilty.
“The Embassy noticed a video clip about a Chinese chef and Kenyan colleague issued by K24 TV today. We support the Kenyan police to investigate the whole issue thoroughly according to Kenyan laws. Whoever violating the law will face legal consequences,” said the Embassy through Twitter.
Police said the suspects will be charged with assault causing actual bodily harm.
Fellow Kenyans, you ain’t…
Fellow Kenyans, you ain’t seen nothing yet! I have nothing more to say about this nasty behavior by the Chinese in Kenya. Otherwise, I could write a whole 1000 page book; and there ain’t no space here! But, what have we gotten ourselves into? @maxiley – any response? I quit!!!!???
@Maina,I went to college…
@Maina,I went to college with afew chinese,and they had avery low opinion of Africans.You may remember afew years ago chinese attacked african men who were dating chinese women, and the mayor of that city praise them for protecting their women.Such is the backdrop ihave as ifume over their condescending slave mentality toward africans.
Let them be jailed for a while with viboko…before being deported.
I urge the chinese embassy to do a better job on educating their people on africa,before they come.We are no longer a primitive continent.They are not doing us a favor by being in Kenya.As far as Iam concerned,they can yank that SGR rail,and take it with them,if we have to kiss their asses to have it.like @ Mugikuyu asks,”Where is our pride,and integrity?”
If i sound incoherent , its because iam choking with anger toward that canning dwarf chef.I will have a better input when icalm down 5days from now.
@maxiley – I have Chinese…
@maxiley – I have Chinese friends ( both males and females) who I have known for some time. A few of them are generally ok human beings.
The Chinese women are more open minded and fairly reasonable in the way they see life in general. They understand past black folks oppression better because the male Chinese have oppressed them for a long time. They have recently started fighting back for their freedom and space.
But, the large Chinese community, and mostly all Asians, and Arabs have the superiority complex mentality that they are better than an average black person. This kind of attitude happens to be the case with most Indians as well!
And because these groups of people have some in- born inferiority complex about themselves, they become real “animals” when they get a chance to mishandle and humiliate a black man. Indeed, black men are endangered species nearly all over the world when it comes to race issues!
I have lived and worked in most Asians countries. You can see this kind of attitude across Asia, the Arab countries and in India. Buddies of mine and I once took a train in South Korea. Some Korean men started fighting us as we traveled through the mountains of South Korea, until we arrived in Seoul nearly two hours later. We almost had to jump out of a moving train to run for safety.
I have experienced near similar humiliating situations in Norway, Germany, Finland, Croatia, Hungary, Austria and Switzerland. The first time I came close to getting arrested was in a shopping mall in Stavanger, Norway – I bought an item in one shop, then entered another shop but on the way out the owner of that shop call the Cops that I stole an item in his shop. Thanks be to God I had a “receipt” to prove my innocence! It was my second day of visit in Norway!!
After that huge mess in the train in South Korea, we later went to a “King Club” in the heart of the dirty Center of Seoul to get some food to eat. The same fighting nonsense ensued and we had to book out of there fast! It all started when a pretty female from across our table looked at us and smiled! Holy cow, them Korea men had a such a fight about that “Chicky smile” to some real black brothers! And man, we paid the price in earnest!
The members of these communities love money, and only admire those who are well connected and have some tangible wealth from which they can tape.
Poverty caused this young man to allow the Chinese to cane him. The man had only two choices at that terrible moment; either to lose his “job”, or to get caned to save his meagre income. He painfully chose the latter; a very humiliating experience!
And how do we make sure this kind of crude behavior stops – educate our people so they can understand their human rights! Build local industries to provide good paying jobs to our people! Make our people fully understand that someone with a “pink or yellow” skin and can barely communicate with the locals is not a better person by all human standards!
In a nutshell, it would be very nice for our folks to travel to those countries so they can see that @all that glitters is not good!” You get to know who people are by having a more direct interaction with them; mainly in their home country. This will educate Kenyans to know muzungu, Chinese, Kireans, Germans, Italians, etc ni chafu sana!
We must also teach our people to fight back when necessary!
@maxiley – I’m sure if this Chinese dude tried such an ass whopping on you, he would have been dead ? on that same spot! I’m not telling Kenyans to physically fight foreigners, but they need to have them respect their space!
But come on now, had such a thing happened in my presence, the dude would have automatically lost 72 dentures from his mouth! We must stand up firm for what is morally right!! At times it takes corporal actions to stop the madness!
@maxiley – I surely feel your pain, my brother! Some dude wrote a book and gave it a title, “Not Yet Uhuru”! I think we all need to go back to the drawing board and come some lasting solutions about how to fix what is broken in our country.
Usife Moyo Ndugu! It can be done!
@ Maina, wow, you certainly…
@ Maina, wow, you certainly had some adventures…Short of travelling,and meeting many people of different nationalities,
my hope is that as the world becomes ‘small’ via advanced communications,and as we see common shared human experiences, we shall start to experience less of discrimination based of skin color.And we africans should also help out to fasten this process by not “worshiping” mzungu,and other light skinned people. They dont care for us unless their is something they want from us.Let’s not lighten our skins,and change our names for their same.When we do that, we are perpetuating the inferiority complex they want us to have.
And you are right Mr. Maina,at 6’2″ 220ibs,Iam apretty big fellow. Bigger than most chinese,and in pretty good shape.So the best that could have happened to him when trying to cane me would be permanent paralysis-ensuring that he would never whip anybody again.I abhore violence,but what the chinois did is battery on aperson.And that person can use more than reasonable force to protect their person-in self defense.
Unfortunately,this is not the first incident we have read about chinois mistreating africans,and I assure you that it wont the the last.Clouded with their prejudice,they dont seem to want to change.They would rather risk deportation than stoop low to an african…go figure.But i hold hope,since you said you have quite afew friends,and they seem to blend well with wafrika.
Smartphones endelea kumulika…
Smartphones endelea kumulika haramu Kenya.Hakuna investigations send them back to their corona virus before they get a chance to bribe their way out.
I don’t understand how a…
I don’t understand how a whole African man can even get to the point of accepting another man to throw a blow at them without fighting back….leave alone kulala chini apigwe viboko…. especially a foreigner…. being beaten at home….and it’s not a ball game. BOY CHILD… surely something is wrong. …ati hata they can be count how many times or how many of them have been beaten…. Whose children are these? Kijana anakimbia Kwa nyumba kuambia mama ati anachapwa na mwingine…. aiiiiii….chafua mtu mapua akae kama accident. Self defence was a thing last time I checked. Wake up vijana!!!
A chines in nairobi called…
A chines in nairobi called Yhuru a monkey and her did nothing about it. Many kenyans are like that. They take their cue from the president.
@justme – poverty, ignorance…
@justme – poverty, ignorance, disease, lack of opportunity to succeed, hopelessness, etc are a major problem in Kenya. The innocent man was very afraid of losing his “job” at the restaurant, and so he succumbed to the humiliation of getting caned as we can all see here!
This started long before the…
This started long before the Chinese came to Kenya. The Indians have been doing similar things to Kenyan natives long before the cell phones came up, so thanks to cell phones in today’s world. Indians have a low opinion on black people too.
@mteja – did you know severe…
@mteja – did you know severe tribalism exists between the Indians themselves, mainly in India!? The darker skin Indians are deeply despised by the lighter skin Indians. The Indians carry their hatred of others all over the world based on what they learn from their home country.
India is also a very poor country except that they have heavily invested in nuclear power.
Indians in Kenya hate the Kenyan blacks as a way of maintaining control over the locals. The locals should fight back hard when an Indian discriminate in them.
And you wonder why Idi Amin used crude ways to humiliate Indians in Uganda. He was just trying to break down their hatred of ordinary Ugandans. The problem is the Indians controlled commerce in Uganda and they ended up destroying Uganda’s economy to retaliate what Amin did to them.
An eye for an eye and a…
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. The young canned man needs to be invited in the police cells, get a similar cane and infuse punishment (bare butt) on this chef before he is deported. For allowing bad behavior from its employers, operating license of the restaurant where the chef worked should be revoked. We must fight fire with fire.
Caning is common in china…
Caning is common in china they are raised with this, it still happens in schools. Women in factories there cane other women on the bare all the time, its a big show and sometimes it gets even more humiliating that i wont even write it out. If they suspect of stealing in a factory the standard process is always the same, finger in butt for 10 minutes its known there as chink bootay
The young Kenyan man then…
The young Kenyan man then needs to be allowed to “chink booty” the chefs butt. I guess that is worse that “bare butt” whipping.
I hope these Chinese…
I hope these Chinese Nationals are temporarily converted to wives in these prisons.
Colonialism big time.As you…
Colonialism big time.As you worship the white jesus u continue big colonised mentality.We the black pple continue to b fools idiots in all ways??I will ask too why did the blacks watch other blacks bin beaten up??Bure kabisa
Wow we do not need chink…
Wow we do not need chink booty over here this habit of inserting fingers and objects in butts is a foreign affair.And whose duty is that to insert chink booty in the thieves butt for 10 minutes.Perverted devils “shetani ashindwe”These are animals and Corona virus should finish them in their own country