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Diana Chepkemoi (right) is welcomed upon her arrival at JKIA in Nairobi on September 6, 2022. The eleventh-hour rescue of Diana from her employer’s “torture chambers” thousands of kilometres away was, indeed, miraculous.
The eleventh-hour rescue of Diana Chepkemoi from her employer’s “torture chambers” thousands of kilometres away was, indeed, miraculous. Diana emotionally narrated her suffering and said many young Kenyans in Saudi Arabia are mentally and physically tortured.
The Ministry of Labour says 35,000 Kenyans are looking for jobs in the Middle East—including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Qatar. This high number of jobseekers yearning to work abroad is a result of lack of jobs in Kenya. The ministry says 1.2 million Kenyans join the labour market every year with just 800, 000 getting jobs. Covid-19 exacerbated the situation as many people were laid off during the pandemic are yet to be re-employed. Covid-19 also paralysed many companies.
