Shadrack Nderitu with his four children. He lost a wife in Saudi Arabia.
The agony of losing a loved one in a foreign country is bitter. But it is even bitter when you learn of what they were engaged during their stay there that eventually led to their death.
Many Kenyans have embraced travelling abroad in search of greener pastures due to the hard economic times in the country and while some are successful, some have to pay it with their own lives.
It is very exciting for Kenyan girls when they learn that they have secured a plane ticket to the Middle East with affirmation that they will be linked to a job to sort out the financial woes.
However, the quest for the good life has sometimes turned out tragic and adding more burden to the families involved. There have been numerous cases of violence, torture, s3xual harassment and now murder.
Slaida Vugutsa Talia is the latest Kenyan to die in Saudi Arabia in mysterious circumstances. And, her mystery and bad luck are following her even after death.
It led to a piercing cry of a mother, a desperate mother who has lost her daughter who had travelled to Saudi Arabia in search of a happy life that would end up in tears for her family.
Slaida Vugutsa Talia
On this night, Robai Kagai Sayanga from Lumakanda, Lugari Constituency, was at the Jomo Kenyatta international airport to receive the body of her daughter Slaida Vugutsa.
“The employer mistreated Saida. He killed her but I wasn’t aware. He buried her. I got to know about it in March."she told journalists.
On March 25, Kenya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the family that a report from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Government informed them that at 4 pm on Thursday, January 29 2021, a call was received from the Police regarding the presence of a body in a desert area north of the village of Mushrifa, partially covered by sand approximately 15 kilometres away.
It was confirmed that the body belonged to an African woman.
An investigation established it was Slaida Vugutsa Talia who had left for Saudi Arabia on February 17, 2020.
Robai says on August 16, 2020, Slaida sent a message informing the family that her employers were erratic and that should she disappear from the internet, they had to explain where she was.
According to the mother, Slaida’s sister called her two weeks later to inform her that had violently fought off attempted rape by her employer and escaped to a police station in Saudi Arabia.
It is not known when exactly she was murdered. Her body was buried in a shallow grave and discovered in January.
Two months later her family was notified and even after making plans to ferry her back to her family, the body ended up being left behind in Germany last week forcing her family to wait for another two days until Thursday night.
Coincidentally the family was collecting the body for burial on Thursday, April 29 the same date and day in January when police in Saudi Arabia collected her body in the desert.
In Kwinet area, Moi’s Bridge lies a grave of another Gulf death trap victim. Blessing Nasimiyu Masika was buried on February 12. The news of her death gutted the family.
Like many who have lost their lives in the Gulf, the causes of death are never revealed by the host country or the Kenyan embassy.
Says Blessing’s brother Eric Juma:“They were cagey with details about our sister’s death, only informing us that the body had been found in the streets of Riyadh.”
The family was left digging for truth on their own. A death certificate that accompanied her body and released by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior and Civil Affairs indicated the cause of her death as cardiac arrest and respiratory [complications].
In another incident, Shadrack Nderitu, can't believe what happened as he shares a story of his wife Mary Wangui in his home in Nakuru Lakeview Estate.
Kenyan woman tortured in Saudi Arabia
With the help of a recruitment agency, Wangui flew to Saudi Arabia to work as a house help. She had been making a living washing clothes in various Nakuru town estates.
Wangui’s untimely and suspicious death while working for a family in Hail City, Saudi Arabia, has shocked her family.
According to Saudi government documents, Wangui died on April 11 after she allegedly committed suicide.
“The agency that got her the job informed me about her death on April 30. They said she hanged herself and even sent photos of the scene,”Nderitu says.
“I don’t believe my wife is dead. And in the event she is, I don’t believe she killed herself. It could be a murder covered as suicide by her tormentors,”he added.
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