The Kuwaiti government has temporarily banned the issuance of visa to Ghanaians recruited as maidservants to work in that country.
This follows numerous reports of maltreatment of recruits who work as house-helps in that country.
According Ghana’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Alhaji Saeed Sinare, the recruits who are mainly below eighteen, are taken to the country through illegal means.
[contextly_sidebar id=”dlSwo3NWylU6i5Gf5nnHDUScvVWyTnRy”]He explained that the ban on the issuance of Visa 20, which is solely for those seeking to enter the country as house-helps, will only be lifted after a bilateral agreement is signed between Ghana and the Kuwaiti government.
He said “we are trying to have an agreement in the future within the next month or two between the two countries whereby we will have a bilateral agreement signed between Ghana and Kuwait”.
This agreement when signed according to him, will capture the rights and privileges of these girls when they are recruited to the Gulf State.
He also indicated that this “will streamline the recruitment of housemaids to Kuwait but for now it’s been barred”.
Meanwhile, twelve girls who have been rescued from their abusive bosses will be flown to Ghana today [Tuesday].
Alhaji Saeed Sinare mentioned that there are 62 rescued girls in a shelter in Kuwait.
Most of these girls he said “were in jail; some were in a shelter home for various offences like prostitution and maltreatment”.
“10 of the girls have already been deported, twelve of them will arrive today and the rest will follow in batches as well” he added.
The Ambassador expressed gratitude to the Kuwaiti government for the cooperation as well as agreement to pay for the cost involved in transporting the girls back to Ghana.
He said “the Kuwaiti government has done so well for housing the girls in a shelter and after meeting with their deputy minister for foreign affairs they’ve agreed to transport all those girls back home to Ghana at their own cost.”
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By: Magdalene Teiko Larnyoh/citifmonline.com/Ghana