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The Kenyan government on Friday that it would temporarily the recruitment of its citizens going to Middle East countries to work as domestic workers. The Foreign Affairs stated that increasing numbers of Kenyans, especially maids, are being mistreated. It says many people are jobs in Gulf countries that do not when they arrive. They are then at the of shady agents who take their passports and place them in jobs with very working conditions. Many get no day and some are never allowed to leave the house in which they work. Many maids report they are and are treated as by their employers.

The from Kenya’s government read: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wishes to that the government has temporarily suspended recruitment and of domestic workers (Housekeepers/maids) to Middle East Countries with immediate ." Kenya’s Political and Diplomatic Secretary Patrick Wamoto said: “The government has noted with , the increasing number of Kenyan citizens who have employment in the Middle East…and up in .” Kenya’s Capital FM radio website stated: "Last month…Muslims for Human Rights that there are more than 30,000 Kenyans working as domestic workers in the Middle East but termed it as human ."