2,000 Kenyans leave for Saudi Arabia weekly – Diaspora Affairs PS
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Diaspora Affairs PS reveals that about 2,000 Kenyans leave for Saudi Arabia weekly for various job opportunities in the Gulf state
Diaspora Affairs PS reveals that about 2,000 Kenyans leave for Saudi Arabia weekly for various job opportunities in the Gulf state.
Speaking during her recent interview with a local media outlet, Principal Secretary, State Department for Diaspora Affairs, Roseline Njogu noted that while a majority of workers are domestic, opportunities in Saudi have opened up for professionals.
“2,000 Kenyans leave for Saudi Arabia weekly and that’s just Saudi. The labour market in the Middle East has a lot of opportunities. A big portion of it is domestic workers and a substantial class of professionals like animal husbandry, dairy experts et al,” the PS said.
In addition, the PS pointed out that efforts by the government to sensitize Kenyans and interested job seekers to rules and regulations, as well as basic language in the Arab world, have led to decreased cases of mistreatment that were on the rise.
She brushed down some of the horrific tales from the Gulf countries, claiming that many of those cases of distress were brought on by conditions being broken in contracts.
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“After we visited Saudi alongside Labour CS and former Foreign Affairs CS Alfred Mutua, we established some of the horror stories from Gulf countries were untrue or the stories had largely been created by some Kenyans after realizing how hard it was to exit the country,” PS Roseline Njogu observed.
Nevertheless, the PS said her ministry has tightened the loopholes by ensuring the bilateral agreements are protective and worker-sensitive and has also conducted a crackdown on private recruitment agencies for migrant workers to Middle Eastern countries.
“The authority that regulates private recruiting agencies has conducted a crackdown of about 1,000 companies and since then, at least 500 companies lost their licenses for lack of compliance.”
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