Exiled lawyer Miguna Miguna has fired at Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Amb. Macharia Kamau after he said that Kenyans who were suffering in Saudi Arabia were not submissive.
In a tweet on Tuesday, September 20, Miguna said that the PS was being inhuman as hundreds of Kenyans were being tortured and murdered in the Middle East.
“Hundreds of Kenyan women have been tortured, maimed and murdered in Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries in the past 10 years but the arrogant, callous and inhuman Amb. Macharia Kamau still shouts that they are being butchered because they are not submissive. Is this man normal?" Miguna posed.
Speaking during the induction ceremony of Members of Parliament in Nairobi, Amb. Macharia said that in places like in the Middle East, submissiveness is needed in household chores.
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He, however, said that Kenyans who were carrying out household chores in Saudi Arabia did not have the submissiveness.
“There are some places where, culturally, unyenyekevu ule unahitajika kwa kazi zingine za nyumbani sio unyenyekevu ambao unapatikana sana kati ya watu wetu. So sometimes our people will not be so subservient. In a country like Saudi Arabia, the traditions around housework are very ancient,” Amb. Macharia said.
He maintained that the people who suffer mostly are househelps as other Kenyans working in various sectors had no problems at work.
“You find that the people who suffer the terrible beatings are usually househelps. But in that same country where we have over 100,000 Kenyans working in different capacities, we have no problem,” he added.
His remarks come after a Kenyan student, Diana Chepkemoi, was rescued from Saudi Arabia where she decried mistreatment from her employers.
