TWENTY-ONE more Zimbabwean women lured to Kuwait under the false pretext of getting jobs as housemaids only to be sold into slavery arrived back home on Friday while seven more are at the country’s embassy in Kuwait City.
The repatriation of the 21 women was facilitated by the Young Christian Women Association, a non-profit organisation, led by human rights lawyer Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda.
Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs chairperson Mr Kindness Paradza who was part of the delegation that visited Kuwait told The Sunday Mail yesterday that there was need to expand the search for other Zimbabwean women in other Arab nations.
It has emerged that some of the women could have been shipped to other Gulf Co-operation Council countries including Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
“As of Friday, we had seven other women at the embassy in Kuwait awaiting repatriation. The embassy says it only has four tickets left from the 25 that were provided for by the Young Christian Women Association.
The women who arrived on Friday told us that some of their friends they went to Kuwait with were transferred to other Middle East countries,” he said.
- Sunday Mail
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