Alasker International Labour Recruitment Company is again under spotlight for exporting another woman now confined in Saudi Arabian Hospital days after fighting off allegations of organ theft before the media.
Patrick Kiwanuka, who works in a stone quarry and is a resident of Kiwuyo in Nakisunga Sub County of Mukono District has also come out accusing the same company of taking and allegedly confining his wife, Justine Nakato Nakyeyune, 35, in a hospital room.
Kiwanuka reveals that he supported Nakyeyune, a former primary two teacher at Rejoice Nursery and Primary school to go and work abroad as a causal Laborer, leaving him behind taking care of their two children. Before she boarded the flight on September 28, this year, she revealed to him via telephone that she was not feeling well.
Kiwanuka says he managed to inform officials of Alasker about her wife’s situation, but that they insisted on instructing her to board the flight. He notes that upon the departure, her wife’s telephone went off for seven days, but he kept on calling again until it went through and was picked by a good samaritan.
“She told me the telephone owner had been admitted at a certain health facility in bad condition, and I beseeched her to reach out to her at the hospital so that I can talk with her on a video call. I was shocked seeing her lying on a bed, she could not manage to sit, stand or talk but she was not receiving any treatment,” Kiwanuka says adding that currently the telephone went off again.
A video clip recorded shows Nakyeyune sleeping on a hospital bed, the person who was recording her trying to instruct her stand up but she could not, despite trying.
Kiwanuka further reveals contacting officials of Alasker who instructed him to report at their offices in Kampala the following day with 2million Shillings to process his travel documents, and to go and sign consent forms allowing doctors at the Arabian facility to operate his wife.
A copy of a receipt issued by Alasker obtained by URN indicates that Kiwanuka only managed to pay only 1milion Shillings. He notes that Alasker officials accepted to top up, but he later rejected the offer to travel abroad after they (officials) declined to avail a medical report on his wife’s status for interpretation before traveling, to sign on it.
Isaac Kiyingi, the Alasker Deputy Managing Director who also instructed Kiwanuka to pay money for a travel ticket, in telephone conversation has admitted knowledge about the accusations but warned to sue whoever goes to the public making claims intended to expose them.
Ronnie Mukundane, the Public Relations Officer of Uganda Association of External Recruitment Agencies-UAERA to which Alasker subscribes says the case is new to them but pledged to intervene and find out what exactly is happening as well as working on the process of returning Nakyeyune home.
Last week, a video of a lady identified as Joan Agnes Kyotalimye emerged indicating she was confined in an Arabian hospital. She claimed that the facility had intentions of removing her body organ which prompted her family members to start demanding for her return.
The Alasker Managing Director, Abdul Wahab Muyomba explained that Kyotalimye is diagnosed with TB, isolated and undergoing treatment at Dammam Medical Complex.
Te Chairman of UAERA, Ibrahim Karim Bogere noted that as a requirement, all migrant workers undergo medical tests at accredited GCC medical centers to ascertain their health status in their countries but still on arrival to their destination countries, the same medical tests are repeated as a basis for one to acquire a resident permit known as iqama.
However, Abudallah Kayonde, the President for Migrant Worker’s Voice says GCC medical ascertainments are useless and incompetent since it has now common to confine many who go abroad at health facilities.
