The family of Miriam Hannah Njeri, 26, is in distress following her death that occurred under unclear circumstance while at a police station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on August 19.
Njeri was in Saudi Arabia for a couple of months where she was serving as a domestic worker. She is said to have jumped from the third floor of the facility while escaping only for her to meet her untimely death later.
According to her husband of 10 years, Jackson Karanja, Njeri successfully underwent a 3-week training for the job and left for the gulf in April last year for a two-year contract after which she would have returned to Kenya and venture into business.
He last spoke to her two weeks ago when she asked him for Kshs40,000 to facilitate her trip back home. At the time, she had spent a week at the police station accommodation facility and was complaining of mistreatment, congestion and lack of food.
The mother of three however failed to respond to his last message inquiring how he should send her the money. Two days later he received devastating news of her death from her friend who said that she was trying to escape when she met her death.
“When we last spoke, she just wanted to come back home to see our children. She was not suicidal; nobody has reached out to explain to me what really happened to my wife. I don’t know if she was killed or she took her own life. I just want answers,” Karanja told a local daily.
He has since made visits to the agency that facilitated his wife’s travel to Saudi Arabia, the country’s embassy, the foreign affairs ministry and the Diaspora Office in a bid to unravel the mystery but all was in vain.
An agent from the gulf informed him to find Kshs1million-5million to bring Njeri home for her burial after a post mortem.
On the other hand, Karanja’s mother Tabitha Njeri, who has been taking care of the couple’s children, said that they had been communicating with the deceased until she was transferred to another house where she began experiencing mistreatment.
According to her, she was being overworked and had little time to sleep. She hardly got time to speak to her children and her salary was directly sent to the agent’s office.
Their last conversation was a month ago when the deceased wanted her to take her children to her own mother. She would later receive a Whatsapp message informing her daughter in-law was no more. She was informed that Njeri died while trying to escape from the police station where she was being mistreated.
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