The now demented man rushed to the kitchen to apparently pick another knife, but just at that moment Naomi's employer returned. Naomi was taken to hospital where she stayed for more than two weeks, before she was released and housed at the Al-Jawf jail awaiting repatriation. "This jail is supposed to hold foreigners for their own protection until they receive air ticket either from their families or reluctant agents. However in the jail, there are also Saudi women criminals, some who have committed murder." When travel arrangements are made, those to be repatriated are then transferred to Jeddah.
Most of those held in the camp include Kenyans, Ethiopians, Indonesians and many from the Philippines. "Some of these people have been in this facility for more than seven months with the knowledge of the Kenyan agents who insist they stay in Saudi or demand money spent in sending them to that country before sending them air tickets. Sometimes the families back home are unable to raise the money and the embassy is ignorant of their fate.
Naomi was lucky in that one woman in the camp was able to contact her husband and when this woman left after paying the agent Sh50,000, she (Naomi) and others gave her the telephone numbers of their relatives in Kenya. Naomi's mother immediately contacted Kimemia when she got the SOS. "My mother had been told about my condition by this woman, but the agent's wife kept insisting that mine had been only a minor injury and that I was already working in another homestead. My mother however insisted that they bring me back."
Naomi earlier worked in Qatar, a country she says was very good to work in, for two years. She chose to go to Saudi Arabia when it took too long for her to process documents to travel back to Qatar.
nkihuria@yahoo.co.uk
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