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Liza Maza calls for immediate repatriation of 19 distressed women OFWs

Submitted by mkbyn on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 11:42am

NP senatorial candidate Rep. Liza Maza called for the immediate repatriation of 19 distressed women workers unduly held in the Annasban company barracks in Abha, in southwestern Saudi Arabia.

"Lagpas 3 buwan na kami rito sa barracks, pero di pa rin kami napapa-uwi,” (We've been here in the barracks for more than 3 months now but we have yet to be repatraiated),” Maza quoted Monaliza Paje, 34 years old of Butuan City, as saying in an urgent message to Migrante International's Middle East regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona.

Paje's fellow co-workers are Susana de la Roca, Maribel Remetio, Vicky Jaruda, Mercy Santos, Rachel Baroy, Shiela Marie Barreto Ventura, Florencia Monte, Sarah Jane Abad, Elisa Mendoza, Margarita Viray, Normalia P. Daraid, Maileen Martinez, Anna Mae Comia, Sherhina Abdulla, Nemia Gallantes, Shirley G. Martinez, and Liezel A. Caballes.