Kenyan women are not to blame for travelling to Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia bound women at the JKIA, September 6, 2022. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

The most saddening thing about the story of Diana Chepkemoi, the university student rescued from Saudi Arabia, is that it is not an isolated tale of suffering. Diana's case is, as she herself confessed, 'only a tip of the iceberg'.

It is so disheartening to note that any stories of women and girls who have come back safe from the gulf country are the exception rather than the norm. According to a tweet by PS in the ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kenyans have been warned against sending 'this category of workers' to Saudi but they have chosen not to listen.