{"id":99949,"date":"2015-03-17T05:30:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T05:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=99949"},"modified":"2015-03-17T05:30:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T05:30:11","slug":"ban-kuwait-visa-20-scheme-in-ghana-ambassador-sinare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=99949","title":{"rendered":"Ban Kuwait &#8216;Visa-20 scheme&#8217; in Ghana &#8211; Ambassador Sinare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alhaji Said Sinare, Ghana\u2019s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is asking government to abolish the issuance of Visa-20 to Ghanaians to travel to Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;PnFHkzTlwqhpR3YqMPDbi9m5kR3mdTTN&#8221;]This he said is the only way to end the maltreatment meted out to Ghanaians, especially the women who travel to that country in search of greener pastures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The women are usually taken by recruitment agencies into these countries in the Gulf States to do menial jobs but end up being subjected to all forms of<span style=\"color: #666699;\"> <a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/05\/the-story-of-a-maltreated-ghanaian-woman-in-kuwait\/#sthash.yPCj30W8.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>abuses instead of the jobs promised them<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the victims told Alhaji Said Sinare <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/16\/govt-moves-to-rescue-enslaved-ghanaian-girls-in-gulf-states\/#sthash.gHG2vlq1.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">when he visited some of them who have been hospitalised<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>that the situation is\u00a0terrible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on the <strong>Point<\/strong> <strong>Blank <\/strong>Segment of <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Alhaji Said Sinare insisted that \u201cthe only thing we can do as a government to stop all these malpractices, these evil acts will be for us to stop that visa-20 issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf that visa 20 permit are stopped then I can guarantee you that we will have peace among our brothers and sisters in Kuwait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_99820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99820\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VISIT-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99820\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VISIT-2.jpg\" alt=\"One of the maltreated Ghanaian women in Kuwait\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the maltreated Ghanaian women in Kuwait<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He however blamed the local agencies who recruit these Ghanaians &#8220;because\u00a0they promise them so much that they are going to earn $1500 a month and that is not true. They hardly even earn $200 a month and what they go through here is hell and it\u2019s not something that we as Ghanaians can&#8217;t boast off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He observed that those in the professional fields such as teachers, lecturers, nurses are not facing such problems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alhaji Sinare further assured that \u201cas long as I am an\u00a0 ambassador here I\u2019m going to make sure that I recommend to government that we need to stop that visa-20 for housemaids and that should be canceled because Nigeria has done it, Ivory Coast has done and Egypt has done it and there is a need for us to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alhaji Said Sinare, Ghana\u2019s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is asking government to abolish the issuance of Visa-20 to Ghanaians to travel to Kuwait. 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