Nakuru woman who died in Saudi Arabia laid to rest after four months
A 26-year-old woman who died in Saudi Arabia in unclear circumstances has been buried in Emburua, Elementaita, in Nakuru county.
Family and friends came together to give the late Hanna Njeri a befitting send-off, four months after her death.
The late Njeri’s husband Jackson Karanja, sat staring at the coffin, his mind yet to come to terms with the demise of his wife who left behind three young children.
“We were told that she was thrown off the building, others say she fell while fleeing, but the situation there is not good. The government should be taking care of the people, not torturing them,” he said.
Miriam Hannah Njeri died on August 19, after allegedly falling from the third floor of a police station building where she had gone to seek refuge. Efforts to bring back the body proved unsuccessful with many Kenyans asking the government to intervene after NTV and Daily Nation aired the story.
Speaking at the burial, the Gilgil Member of Parliament Martha Wangari said Parliament is looking for ways of preventing coming up with policies that will end this kind of human suffering in the Middle East.
“Parliament has constituted a new committee known as domestic and migrant workers to look into the policies issues that will be called to the Foreign and Relations Committee to look at ways of preventing our young girls from traveling to the Middle East to suffer and die,” she said.
Had Kenya formulated better policies protecting Kenyans, working as domestic workers in the Middle East, perhaps, just perhaps, Hannah Njeri would be tucking her children to bed, every night.