A distraught mother pleaded for the government’s intervention after her daughter living with disability was held at a deportation facility identified as Sakani in Saudi Arabia.
Marion Njeri who hails from Nakuru County revealed that her daughter is blind and incapacitated and stuck in the Middle East country.
She further revealed that when her daughter identified as Peris Mugure went to Saudi Arabia in 2019, she was in good health.
“My daughter traveled to Saudi Arabia in 2019 in what was supposed to be a two-year contract.
“After the contract ended in 2021, she was given an extension of one year and was supposed to come back home in June 2022,” the mother revealed.
During her stay in Saudi Arabia, the daughter was in constant communication with the family until May 18, 2022.
“That is the day my daughter called me excitedly revealing she will be coming home in a month.
“I was excited little did I know that was the last time I would be speaking to my daughter,” she painfully narrated.
Immediately after that call, Mugure’s phone went off, making her mother worried.
She started making trips to the foreign affairs offices in September 2022, to find out her daughter’s whereabouts.
“I did not get any help from the government but later got a call from Mugure’s friend who revealed she had been held at the same facility with Mugure.
“She informed me that Mugure was sickly and that she was using diapers and was in a wheelchair," a tearful Njeri revealed.
She added that during a video call with the friend, she was told that Mugure could not speak, see or walk.
Her plea is for the Kenyan government to help her daughter be airlifted to the country and be reunited with her family.
"I just want my daughter back even if she is blind or cannot walk.
"My heart will be at peace the moment I see her,” she pleaded with the government.
On Wednesday, January 25, the Kenyan government airlifted Joyce Aoko who had been assaulted in Albania.
"We found it fit and in Aoko’s best interests, to bring her home to complete her journey of healing among her loved ones," the State Department for Diaspora Affairs announced in a statement.