Ruse Of Green Pastures

The plight of unsuspecting Ghanaians who travel to foreign lands, especially through dodgy recruitment agencies, made the headlines in one of our editions this week.

The pressure exerted by the troubled local economy offers an impetus for advertising ostensibly fantastic employment packages in countries like Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and others in that region to unemployed girls.

It does not take long for those who fall prey to these mouth-watering advertisements to discover that they would be performing the dual roles of domestic servants and sex service to their employers.

A gory video which expectedly went viral last week showed a girl whose name was given as Adjoa undergoing forced sex at the hands of three men whose American accent pointed at their likely origin. It was in cosmopolitan Dubai and the remarks from the lady's aggressors, who numbered three, said it all about her naivety of the sex trade into which she found herself.

Her aggressors queried her for not rehearsing before engaging in the sex work and went ahead to subject her to physical assaults as they unleashed their unbridled libido on her. She wept and endured her ordeal, expectedly wondering how she ended up in this predicament.

The deduction to be made from the video is that the lady travelled to that country through a recruitment agency but was compelled to engage in an occupation she has never engaged in back home.

Her plight represented what many of her compatriots currently working in various houses in Kuwait and other places in that part of the world are going through.

Ghana's envoy to Saudi Arabia with additional responsibility to countries in the Gulf, Said Sinare, confirmed what some Ghanaian ladies endure as they perform so-called domestic work in the Gulf countries. One of the preoccupations of the envoy since assuming office has been rescuing entrapped Ghanaian ladies as it were. He is currently scheduled to travel to Kuwait to rescue some Ghanaian ladies entrapped in some homes where their living conditions are anything but acceptable.

His many interventions have saved the lives of many of such Ghanaian ladies in his areas of operations as Ghanaian envoy.

Females in our communities must understand that those who went to work in these countries have by and large regretted their decisions because of the ordeals they have endured at the hands of sex-starved and unscrupulous Arabs.

The true picture of working as domestic servants in the homes of rich Arabs is not really presented to these innocent ladies who realise, when it is too late, that they have crossed the Rubicon rescue only in the hands of the Ghanaian mission which can only do so much.

Perhaps it is time to regulate the operations of the employment agencies as a potent means of saving innocent ladies from dangerous jobs in so-called rich countries.