More than a fortnight earlier, they had sat and waited to receive salary arrears, but without success, and on every face the strain and toil of waiting seemed etched like a scar. “That’s their modus operandi,” the man said, “making fools out of poor civil servants.”“Where do you work?” Mr. Gayflor asked. Those who found themselves shoved at the end of the line shouted amid a barrage of insults. An old man, pummeled to the ground by a huge, muscular fellow, began to scream at the top of his lungs. “We must only pray we get paid today.”Suddenly, out of the glass door strutted the governor of the bank, Mr. Nahpan.

Source: Daily Observer September 06, 2018 02:15 UTC