Millicent Moraa: 24-year-old Kenyan dies mysteriously in Saudi Arabia

Another Kenyan family from the Ting’a area of Nyamira County is mourning the death of their 24-year-old kin who died under mysterious circumstances in the Gulf country of Saudi Arabia.

July 14th was the last time Simon Obuya spoke to his wife Millicent Moraa who had by then spent only three months in the gulf country of Saudi Arabia, having travelled there on the 17th of March this year in search of greener pastures.

Despite securing a job in less than a month after her arrival in the country, the late Moara had on a number of times raised concerns over her employer's inappropriate sexual advances and had asked BK Sibs, the agency that had taken her there, to find her another employer.

“Mwanzo alipoingia kwa hio nyumba alikuwa na furaha kuwa haikuwa kama ile ya kwanza. Akakaa huko but after kitu kama wiki mbili hivi akaanza kucomplain employer wake anamharass sexually,” Obuya tells Citizen TV.

Her untimely demise the family says, came after she went back to this employer having left the home after a month there. the employer requested her back, promising to quit the advances, something that was never to be. this forced her to hatch a plan to leave the house, with the help of her agent.

“Alikuwa ameongea na agent wake wa kenya gilbert kuwa anataka arudishwe kwa ofisi. Gilbert akamshauri asimame kwa gate kesho yake…. akampigia Gilbert na pia akanipigia  akanieleza kuwa ameweza kutoka nje na anagongoja agent wake wa saudi amchukue kutoka hapo kwa gate. Hio ndio mara ya mwisho niliskia kutoka kwa Millicent,” the husband narrates.

Two months on, even after the family received the news of Moraa’s demise on the 23rd of July in what health authorities in Saudi termed as a result of a brain freeze resulting from a fall, the body is yet to be repatriated for burial, despite the agency telling the family that all payments required, had been made to bring her back home.

“Kuna documents alikuwa anatutumia ati ni risiti za kulipa. sasa nilipomwambia kitu kama death certificate unitumie akaniambia ati hizo zitakuja na mwili. Lakini kwa wiki hii moja amekuwa ni mtu haeleweki. Nikimpigia simu hashiki. Mwisho aliniambia pia yeye ako kenya kama mimi na pia yeye anangoja tu. sasa mimi nikashindwa uhalali wa hii agency ni gani kama hajui ile mambo inaendelea,” Moraa’s father-in-law Daniel Areba.

The family that has been in mourning in the last month since the incident now wants the government to help them bring Moraa home for burial and closure.