{"id":99733,"date":"2015-03-16T13:39:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T13:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=99733"},"modified":"2015-03-16T13:39:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T13:39:06","slug":"govt-moves-to-rescue-enslaved-ghanaian-girls-in-gulf-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/03\/govt-moves-to-rescue-enslaved-ghanaian-girls-in-gulf-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov’t moves to rescue ‘enslaved’ Ghanaian girls in Gulf States"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following Citi FM’s<\/strong> series of reports on the maltreatment of some Ghanaian women<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>working as domestic workers in the Gulf States, the Ghana Ambassador to Saudi Arabia\u00a0Alhaji Said Sinare has visited some of the women in Kuwait.<\/p>\n

The three day visit according to the Ambassador, was to have a first-hand information that could inform and influence policy decisions on such travels in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m doing my best and I will not tolerate this maltreatment of Ghanaians. I work for it to stop,\u201d Mr Sinare said.<\/p>\n

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One of the maltreated girls in Kuwait<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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[contextly_sidebar id=”vJMv5jRzMp2BRrWbDwXDMiynEnzBt2Dl”]He also met with the Ghanaian community in Kuwait hearing\u00a0about maltreatment faced by Ghanaian ladies in that country. Narrating his experience to Citi News<\/strong> Alhaji Said Sinare described his experience as \u201cvery bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

He blamed the local agents in Ghana who process these girls for the Gulf States.<\/p>\n

He said \u201cI don\u2019t think our agents in Ghana are doing us any good. Because the way these girls are being mistreated in Kuwait, it is so bad this is slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He further explained that these girls are promised monthly salaries ranging from $1000 to $2000 which is far more than what they are paid when they get there.<\/p>\n

He narrated how \u201ca 19 year old Ghanaian girl, had her whole body burnt,\u201d describing the burns as \u201ca first degree burn.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Mr. Sinare, the girl was abandoned by her employer and \u201ca good Samaritan took her to the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s alive still in the hospital, still undergoing surgery and it\u2019s so bad\u201d, he fumed.<\/p>\n

Alhaji Said Sinare\u00a0who visited the said victim at a hospital in Kuwait described the situation as “terrible and dangerous.”<\/p>\n

He is therefore calling for the abolishment of the ‘Visa 20’ plan which makes it possible for women from Ghana to be hired as cooks and other domestic workers to Kuwait and other gulf states.<\/p>\n

He stated that this \u201cneeds to stop and we need to do this now.\u00a0For as long as this is not stooped, the abuse by the Kuwaiti employees will still go on,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n

The Ghana Ambassador to Saudi Arabia indicated that Ghana will not be the first country to stop the \u2018Visa 20\u2019 plan, citing Nigeria and Cote D\u2019Ivoire as examples of countries that have abolished this plan.<\/p>\n

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By: Magdalene Teiko Larnyoh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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