Residents of Nakuru town have been warned against an increased presence of human trafficking perpetrators in the region purporting to be foreign employment recruitment agents.
Speaking to our reporter on Tuesday, Vincent Mutisyo, an official of the Kenya Human Rights Commission based in Nakuru said the increased number of advertisements for foreign jobs targeting local youths was a sign of an influx of human trafficking syndicates in the region and warned residents to be wary of such.
Mutyiso observed that the perpetrators were not only taking advantage of the lack of awareness against the human trafficking syndicates, but also the over increasing unemployment problem in the urban centre.
“We have observed with great concern the increased advertisements about foreign jobs that claim to ferry local youth to Arab countries to work. These people claim that they need nothing from those applying for the jobs. What does suggest? Human trafficking of course,” said Mutyiso.
He further said the traffickers advertise in local media, posters, fliers and on small signboards all over the urban centre purporting to hire house girls, drivers, hotel attendants among other jobs to lure unsuspecting Kenyans into inhuman foreign encounters traps.
The human rights watch group official said that the human trafficking syndicate was rife in Nakuru and other western Kenya parts after exhausting its activities in Nairobi and Mombasa.
He warned that the country risked subjecting many of its youths to suffering in foreign Arab countries unless the government comes up with radical unemployment challenges solutions.