Chronicle EditorAbigail Mawonde Herald Correspondent—
Six more women who had been held hostage in Kuwait after being lured to the Middle East country on the pretext that they were going to be offered lucrative jobs by a local human trafficking syndicate, returned home on Tuesday.This brings the number of women who have flown back to over 250 with 121 of them having been assisted in meeting their repatriation expenses by Government.
The women were welcomed at the Harare International Airport by Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs chairperson Cde Kindness Paradza.
“We have just received six more women from Kuwait. The seventh one was left behind because her documents were not in order and Kuwait authorities were investigating her,” he said.
The women are expected to help with investigations into the human trafficking saga.
Cde Paradza said from discussions by the women, 30 seem to be stuck in Kuwait.
He said Government was making frantic efforts to ensure that they were re-united with their families back home.
“What the Government has done so far is that it has set up a team made up of social welfare officers and investigators from police to go to Kuwait and engage authorities there so that they can locate all those who are still outstanding,” he said.
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