Let us uproot dupable immigrant recruiting agencies

Relatives carry a coffin bearing the remains of Slaida Vugutsa. Slaida was allegedly killed by her employer in Saudi Arabia. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

The plight of Kenyans working in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, is harrowing with cases of gross human rights violation and reports of deaths under unclear circumstances incessantly soaring.

Majority of these agencies extort huge sums of money from desolate citizens, dodge tax compliance and continue to act as link suppliers of terror recruits in the overseas countries. In the last two years over 97 cases of deaths have been recorded by the ministry of labour affecting Kenyan immigrants working in the gulf regions.