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PS Kamau faces backlash for remarks on Kenyans working in Saudi Arabia

Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Kamau Macharia [Wilberforce Okwiri, the Standard]

Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Kamau Macharia has come under sharp criticism from a section of Twitter users following his remarks on Kenyans who travel to Gulf countries in search of employment.

Macharia was responding to AMREF Communications Director Lizz Ntonjira, who questioned why basic human rights for Kenyans working in the Middle East Countries were being abused.

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