David Ole Sankok has claimed that Kenyan ladies who work in the Middle East as domestic laborers are picked from Nairobi’s “red-light” district, Koinange Street.
Sankok talked from Saudi Arabia where he met with the country’s Ministry of labour officials to discuss the predicament of Kenyan workers in Gulf nations.
In a post to his Facebook page, Sankok pointed fingers at recruitment organizations, blaming them for sourcing workers from brothels such as Sabina Joy.
Ole Sankok asserted that these agencies don’t prepare immigrant workers appropriately.
“From my assessment, the problem is Kenya recruitment agents pick girls from Koinange street, bars, and brothels and export them as immigrant workers without pre-departure training on laws, traditions and cultures of foreign countries.
“Even back home you can not pick a househelp from Koinange Street or Sabina Joy and expect house services without parental control,” he wrote.
Sankok said when he gets back to Kenyan, he will establishment changes to the labour migration laws that will require Kenyan immigrant laborers to have ethics and the right schooling.
“We will lobby executive to fast-track the signing of bilateral agreements that will protect all Kenyan workers in the Middle East. We will not allow families to send drug addicts for rehabilitation to the Middle East disguising as labourers. We will not allow prostitutes from Sabina-joy to go to the Middle East with hidden agendas disguising as immigrant workers,” he declared.
