Diana Chepkemoi being held by former Nairobi County CEC Vesca Kangongo at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on September 6, 2022, after returning from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. Long working hours for low wages, and physical, psychological and sexual abuse are some of the slave-like conditions that these Kenyans have had to endure.
Photo credit: Evans Habil | Nation Media Group
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Long working hours for low wages, and physical, psychological and sexual abuse are some of the slave-like conditions that these Kenyans have had to endure.
The government should then deregister all the agents who have been facilitating the recruitment and export of young Kenyans.
The government should also prosecute the recruitment companies and ensure that they compensate the victims or the victim's families in case the victims died while working in these countries.
The government should ban the recruitment of Kenyan female domestic workers by gulf states.
As the unavailability of decent jobs for educated Kenyan young people continues, hundreds of thousands of these youths have opted to travel to the gulf countries of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates with the hope of landing a job that they hope will alleviate them and their families from poverty.
