A Kingdom with Double Face: SAUDI ARABIA - Is it a living hell?

A crying voice from the wilderness drowns every sound at its surroundings. It is one voice crying for many supposedly in trouble from far away home. They’re like widows stigmatised and victimised, facing rejection, worried by the horror they’ve to deal with on a daily basis.

Terror stares at them. Daylight seems like a forgotten friend, they hardly sight her--- confined to the depths of darkness pressured to swallow the bitter pills that are often thrown at them in a disgusting and disdainful manner.

Help never approaches!
And it appears to them hope is losing its last breath. In a strange land they live like slaves—they go without food at times, no water to drink and no medication when they’re sick.

Bodies strewn on cold floors, some twitched, some helpless and some dealing with urinary incontinence. They’re Ghanaian women (young and precious) trapped at the jaws of Saudi Arabia being mauled by the angry and heartless beast.

They sojourned here in search of greener pastures. But that ambitious dream has since become an illusion.

Their story has never been told, their story has never been heard and their calls have gone unanswered. Time is of essence.

This is an untold story of distressed Ghanaian women—yet to be told and yet to be heard.

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About one hundred troubled Ghanaian women believed to be in Saudi Arabia are appealing to the president John Mahama to do everything humanly possible to rescue them from a place they call ‘a living hell’.

“We’re locked up. We’re starved. We’re raped and we’re beaten on a daily basis,” says a distressed woman on recording tapes currently trending on social media. It’s not known when both recordings-- audio and video were made, but experts believe they could be recent.

It’s also unclear whether Ghana’s ambassador to the oil-rich kingdom is aware of the situation of these women who live in perpetual fear.

Two women are later heard speaking ‘Twi’ a Ghanaian language (among the Akans) amid their importunate calls on the president to come to their aide. They alleged one Alhaji Iliasu resident in Achimota (near the New Overhead bridge) a suburb of Accra sponsored their trip to the Arabian kingdom. According to them, they were promised jobs, good health facilities, good accommodation but it turned out to be empty promises.

Their cracking voices and emotive plea send quivers down the spine as they further appeal to the government of Ghana to ensure that immediate action is taken to stop tens and hundreds of Ghanaian youth who are desperate seeking to travel to Saudi.

‘Saudi is a living hell. It’s a desert. It doesn’t rain here and our skins are dry. Please nobody should consider seeking greener pastures in Saudi. Life here is extremely difficult, it’s tough and rough, she warned.”

Thank goodness they’ve managed to let their untold story out. And it is hoped that their unanswered calls perhaps will soon be answered. .

In another development a Ghanaian woman based in the US is calling on republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to deport all Africans back to Africa if he’s elected president. Her shameful call captured on a minute or less video posted on Facebook has attracted many comments some of them harsh.

Ironically she received some likes too. According to the 20-something year-old woman she’s a tanned body and so she wouldn’t face deportation if Trump’s presidency calls for a mass deportation. “Glad I’ve a tanned body. See, look at me, and see how beautiful my skin looks,” she bragged.

That’s a disguised rat there. She thinks she can be a mole, forgetting that its ratish tail will soon betray her.