Cotu Secretary General Francis Atwoli.NAIROBI – Employment agencies taking Kenyans to work in the Middle East have been put on notice for facilitating what Central Organisation of Trade Union (Cotu) on Wednesday termed as “modern slavery.”The government has also been criticised for ignoring the plight of many Kenyans who have reported their suffering while working in the Gulf.Cotu Secretary General Francis Atwoli said it was high time all the agencies taking Kenyans to work in the Middle East were shut.Foreign relations and employment, he said, should be discussed between governments and not agencies “that have neither offices nor properly listed officials.”“When you hear the CS, or PS of Labour commissioning the issue of Kenyans going either to Saudi, in Riyadh, or Jeddah, Doha in Qatar or anywhere in the Gulf to look for employment; that is an application of indirect slavery officially supported by the Kenyan government through the Ministry of Labour,” Atwoli said at […]
‘NO SLAVERY’
