CBCP exec urges PHL government to reimpose deployment ban to Kuwait


A Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines official leading a commission that takes  care of migrants has appealed for the re-imposition of the deployment ban of Filipino workers to Kuwait.
Balanga Bishop Ruperto Santos of the CBCP-Episcopal Commission on Migrants and Itinerant People (CBCP -ECMI) also asked President Rodrigo Duterte last Friday to compel the Kuwaiti government to implement the memorandum of agreement signed by both countries for the protection of OFWs.
Likewise, Bishop Santos urged both governments to serve justice to a Filipina worker who was allegedly raped by an airport security personnel early this month upon arrival in Kuwait.
"Both governments must see to it that the suspected rapist-in-uniform must be prosecuted, punished... [and] All necessary assistance and help should be extended to her,"  the Bataan prelate said in an interview over Church-run Radio Veritas last Friday.
"And we must be ready to enforce deployment ban, as she was second victim after the brutal death of Constancia Dayag," he added.
Santos noted that the recent case of abuse on the OFW is a clear violation of the agreement signed by the Philippines and Kuwait.
"As our Filipina household service worker is raped is a clear violation of the agreement between our country and Kuwait for the protection of OFWs," Santos said.
He also pushed for the prosecution of the 22-year-old suspect, Fayed Naser Hamad Alajmy.
Earlier, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said that it remains open to the possibility of the re-imposition of the deployment ban to Kuwait due to Dayag's case, who died last May 14 with her body reportedly having various contusions and hematoma with a "cucumber" inside her private part.
The government is still waiting for the result of the autopsy conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation so that they will be guided on what action to be taken next.
Last year, the POEA imposed a four-month total deployment ban to Kuwait upon the directives of President Duterte amid the continued abuses and maltreatment of OFWs.
After its lifting in May 2018, the governments of the Philippines and Kuwait entered into a memorandum of agreement on the deployment and protection of OFWs in the host country.
Included in the agreement are the establishment of a special police unit that will assist the Philippine Embassy in administering rescue operations, and provide assistance to OFWs in need.—LBG, GMA News

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