Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary, Alfred Mutua, directed a team based in Tanzania to intervene and determine the intrigues behind the alleged detention and confiscation of a Kenyan citizen's passport.
On Tuesday, November 1, Mutua directed the officials to assist the Kenyan, Fredrick Omondi, whose clip went viral on various social media platforms after he was recorded pleading with the government to assist him.
"I have noted the online clip of Kenyan Frederick Omondi, who is being held in Tanzania," Mutua's statement read in part.
"I directed our Tanzanian team to find out the whole story and to assist him," Mutua added.
The CS also insisted that the government was setting up measures to streamline the employment of Kenyans abroad.
Omondi's troubles reportedly began after his first employer passed on during the pandemic period. The deceased had hired him to oversee the construction of a multi-million project in Tanzania.
His plight was compounded by the deceased's last-born son accusing him of stealing construction materials.
Despite relocating to another town in Tanzania, the employer allegedly followed him and took over his established business.
"So I opened a Pharmacy which cost me nearly Ksh1.5 million - I even have my transactions receipts," he lamented.
"This guy took the pharmacy claiming that you are using our pharmacy to build it," Omondi claimed.
Confiscating his passport rendered him jobless as he could not conduct any financial transactions in the foreign country.
"Meanwhile, I cannot work in this country because I need a work permit to work which is stuck on the passport, and yet they are holding on to my passport," he stated.
He also grappled with paying his wife's Ksh700,000 hospital bill after she gave birth with complications.
