Kenyan Woman Recounts Her One and Half Years of Misery at Deportation Centre in Saudi Arabia
- Lilian Muthoni left Kenya for Saudi Arabia in search of a better life, but what awaited her was a nightmare of surveillance, abuse, and forced detention
- She says she was drugged, harassed, and falsely labelled as mentally ill before being deported after 18 months in isolation
- Now back home, she insists she is mentally sound, but claims her former employer is still controlling her life remotely
A Kenyan woman has come forward with shocking allegations about her time working in Saudi Arabia, painting a grim picture of exploitation, surveillance, and abuse.
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Lilian Muthoni says she left Kenya in 2020 in search of greener pastures after struggling to make ends meet at home.
How Lilian Muthoni's life changed
In a chilling interview with TUKO Talks, Muthoni says she soon discovered that her new life abroad was a nightmare in waiting.
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According to her, her employers monitored her every move, from cooking and cleaning to even showering, and openly discussed her in ways that left her feeling dehumanised.
For a while, she dismissed the invasion of privacy as routine, until her employers started openly discussing private details about her and her family.
“When I tried to request a return ticket home, instead of being helped, I was taken to a police station,” Muthoni recalled.
Muthoni's life at deportation camp
She claims that after four months in her employer’s household, her phone was confiscated and she was transferred to a deportation centre.
There, she alleges, she was injected with an unknown substance that left her physically affected and mentally unstable.
“My hands were weak, my body was a mess, and I had a nonstop headache. Many people who saw me thought I was mentally unstable,” she said.
Muthoni added that the few times she managed to call her family in Kenya, she was closely monitored.
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Muthoni claims ex-employer still controls her
She would go on to spend one and a half years at the deportation centre, isolated and classified as mentally ill, before she was finally flown back to Nairobi.
Although she is now back in Kenya, she insists her ordeal is far from over. Muthoni believes her former employers continue to exert remote psychological control over her life.
She has since become a regular patient at Mathari Mental Hospital, a label she rejects, maintaining that she is mentally sound.
Asked why she believes her former boss is still interested in her life, Muthoni claims it could be tied to the money they spent acquiring her services, only for her to leave midway.
Murang'a woman deported from Saudi
Her case adds to the growing concerns about the treatment of migrant domestic workers in Gulf countries, with many returning home with harrowing experiences of abuse, exploitation, or worse.
In an almost similar story, a young mother of two from Murang’a shared her emotional journey seeking a better life for her children.
Goretti Wambui disclosed that she relocated to Saudi Arabia in search of a new beginning after her marriage turned abusive.
However, things turned sour when her host family mistreated and refused to pay her, despite her working diligently.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
