When Ronald Otieno, the former general manager of the Kenyan ride-hailing company Little Cab, pressed the voice recording button on his mobile phone during a tense meeting with his former employer, little did he know that the audio clips would later become the smoking gun in a landmark labour relations suit.
Last week, the Employment and Labour Relations Court in Nairobi awarded Mr Otieno $750,000 (Sh96.9 million) after he proved that his former bosses had unlawfully fired him to avoid honouring a one percent equity promise — a claim cemented by his covert recordings.
