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- Merab Wanjiku left Kenya for Saudi Arabia for what she believed was a great opportunity to secure her children’s future
- At that time, she was married to a man who physically abused her and with whom she had had three children with
- However, life in Saudi Arabia was not as easy as she thought; she came home a few weeks ago with two children of different bad-paying Sudanese men
A Kenyan woman recounted how she traveled to Saudi Arabia seven years ago hoping to earn money and provide a better future for her three children, but ended up returning home with her hands empty and with two children in the trailer.
Source: UGC
Merab Wanjiku who is from Gatundu, Kiambu returned to Kenya a fortnight ago after seven years in the Gulf but unfortunately apart from the two adorable children she came with she had nothing to get out of it.
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Speaking on Baruthi Wa Thayu’s YouTube channel, the woman said she initially left Kenya due to the difficulties she faced in marrying her abusive husband.
The mother of five recalled that she had to leave home because her husband occasionally assaulted her. So she secretly worked with an agent in hopes of flying to the Middle Eastern nation.
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“A friend of mine who saw how much I was suffering in marriage gave me the idea to go to Saudi Arabia. She asked me to look for 500 GHc so that I could start the process”, a- she declared.
Work in Saudi Arabia
One fine morning she left the country for what she thought was a life-changing opportunity, but a year and four months in the country things started to turn ugly.
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Due to her husband’s brawls, she was in constant pain and therefore it became impossible to take care of the household chores in her boss’s house in Saudi Arabia. So she told her employer that she wanted to come back to Kenya but they were adamant.
“They took me to another Arab’s house to work for them but there the workload was even worse,” she said.
Frantic efforts ensued to try to return to Kenya, but she did not get the help she needed, even from the Kenyan embassy.
She would meet a Kenyan and his wife who unfortunately cheated her almost all the money she had earned, leaving her nothing to survive.
Sudanese men
Wanjiku said she started interacting with a group of women she would party with in Saudi Arabia and it was in this process that she met her first Sudanese lover who got her pregnant.
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“When I got pregnant, however, he left for his country, never to come back. I couldn’t even speak to him again,” she recalls.
A few months after giving birth to her fourth child and a first in Saudi Arabia, she will then meet another guy, a Sudanese, from whom she became pregnant. It was her fifth child, and the second in the Middle Eastern nation.
Unfortunately, neither of the men stayed to help support the two children. Life became so unbearable for her that she went to a deportation center with her two children.
Wanjiku returned a few weeks ago, after seven years in Saudi Arabia, but she can barely feed herself and the small children.
Worse yet, the three children she left behind in Kenya are suffering as their father remarried and left them alone in pitiful conditions.
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