Dumped at sea for months with no food, water

Kenya Maritime Authority (KMA) director General Major Rtd George Okong'o (right) chats with the seafarers abandoned in Mozambique. They had to beg poor villagers for food and still came back home with no pay. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

The 10 Kenyan seafarers abandoned for three months in Mozambique by their employer were forced to beg for food and drinking water from villagers in Pemba to survive.

The seamen, who arrived in the country on Wednesday narrated how they were duped by an agent who sneaked them through Tanzania to Mozambique for work on board Mv Nina.