Family seeks help for worker held in Oman

Zila Chao is among scores of women who were recently enlisted by agents to work as domestic workers in Oman. The mother of two left home three months ago after being promised a well-paying job.

However, all is not rosy for Chao in the foreign country. According to her parents and agents, the domestic worker has now been confined in an office in Oman after she allegedly breached her two-year contract. Chao now wants to come back home, but the agents who facilitated her trip to Oman are demanding Sh250,000 so that she can be released.