Good day all.
An unfortunate thing is happening here in Saudi. Some cartels in northern
Nigeria are trafficking innocent girls and women into Saudi on the pretext of getting
them jobs as home nurses or house maids. Upon getting here, the poor girls are
turned into sex slaves, and anyone who
resists is brutalized severely. It aches the heart to see
them being brought to the hospital after serious beatings and Sexual
molestations (including lesbianism) from their "masters". We see them
almost every day. Nigerians! The most recent occurrence was witnessed by Dr
Ugo, my colleague in Jizan, who's working in the southern region of this
country. . We contacted the Nigerian consular office in Riyadh but they are not
willing to help, in fact they're not picking our calls again. I have a bit of a
situation before me. I was working in the female ER when the ambulance services
brought some woman with severe epigastric pain Who was crying and all. When I
came to see the woman, it happened that she was Nigerian. She is a maid working
for a family and she just got into Saudi Arabia 7 days ago. She said since she
came the madam she
works for has starved her and she has eaten only thrice in
that seven days. Plus beatings as well. Unfortunately
for her the family she works for abandoned her at the hospital. Now she has
been treated and is discharged but nobody to discharge her to. Also she barely
speaks any English or pidgin and is from Kano. My duty has finished. But me and
my guy ( another Nigerian)
doesn’t feel it’s right to abandon her here at
the hospital and go home. I even took her to the hospital kitchen so she can
eat. Her name is Saidat Bashir. I don’t
know her age. She is from Kano. All she has been doing is crying and telling us
to call her husband in Nigeria. The said husbands number is switched off. She
said she came with her sister. And they were taken to different families. And
her sister is even in a worse state. Being beaten regularly and all. In just 7
days.
Now the problem here is that the family says they are no
longer interested. But they seized her passport and phone. Alongside starving
her. According to her she has eaten only 3 times in the 7
days she has been here. Hence her coming to the hospital
with severe epigastric pain. When these things happen the police take them to
some place and keep them. And only God knows what happens afterwards. We feel a
kind of social media campaign is the only solution now, so that probably
someone like Abike Dabiri could be aware and put a call through to the consulate
here.
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