Migrant Employees Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac provides updates on standing of various Filipinos working overseas in the course of the Saturday Information Discussion board in Quezon Metropolis on Oct. 12, 2024. PNA picture / Robert Alfiler
MANILA, Philippines – Division of Migrant Employees (DMW) Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac on Thursday assured that the Philippine authorities will search justice for the slain abroad Filipino employee (OFW) in Kuwait.
He stated they’re now carefully monitoring the case with the prime suspect in custody of Kuwaiti authorities.
“We additionally know that the prime suspect is already in custody and is being investigated, we have now a lawyer on the bottom, our authorized retainer on the bottom, who’s monitoring this case as a result of our greatest curiosity right here is to push for a prosecution of the prime suspect and justice to be attained,” Cacdac stated in a media interview.
He stated the sufferer has been working in Kuwait for the final 5 years, having labored already for 2 employers.
“Apparently she had transferred to a second employer, so her authentic employer on document was not the employer who reported her as having absconded or terminated her employment with the second employer someday on October sixteenth, and we additionally know that October was the final time she had communicated together with her household and since that point there had been no studies about her,” Cacac stated.
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He added that after shedding contact with the OFW, the household thought that the sufferer was simply busy.
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Cacdac stated the DMW didn’t have any registered or documented studies from her household.
It was not till Dec. 28 that Kuwaiti authorities reported the invention of the OFW’s physique.
Cacdac confirmed that the prime suspect has a earlier felony document in Kuwait.
He, nonetheless, stated particulars concerning the actual circumstances and motive for the crime stays unclear.
Cacdac assured the sufferer’s household that the OFW’s stay will probably be repatriated after the mandatory investigative procedures are accomplished.
At current, he stated the Philippine authorities would offer monetary help for the sufferer’s burial and different associated bills.
Further assist can also be being coordinated by means of the Philippine Embassy and the Migrant Employees Workplace in Kuwait.
Cacdac stated the incident has sparked issues concerning the security of Filipino employees in Kuwait, notably relating to employment transfers.
He stated the Philippine authorities has already carried out stricter measures for deploying OFWs to Kuwait, together with monitoring recruitment practices and requiring earlier expertise earlier than deployment.
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With the current incident, he stated the Philippine authorities would overview insurance policies to stop such incidents from occurring once more.
In one other interview, Kabayan Occasion-list Consultant Ron Salo raised issues about unlawful employment transfers by OFWs.
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Cacdac, in the meantime, assured that the federal government is bettering its pointers for such transfers and enhancing accessibility for Filipino employees to report adjustments in employment, whereas discussions about additional tightening of rules are ongoing.