The pain of going abroad: 19 Nepalis stranded in UAE

19 Nepali youths, including the Rai brothers, who arrived in the UAE after paying a deposit of 199,000 per person to the agent, are now stranded because of not getting the specified job and price.

When they did not get the work and wages according to the labor agreement, Bhavisi Jisi of Surkhet, Devasin Sunarimar of Palpa Tinau, Kishore Khatri of Udaipur Gaighat, Himal Sartunge of Gulmi Musikot, Jitendra Shahi of Calikot, Sunil Shrestha of Nawalparasi, Karan Sardar of Morang, Lakshmi Prasad Dulal of Tehrathum, Man Bahadur Shahi of Dailekh, Misrilal Das of Jhapa, Tilak Bahadur Sunar of Dhading, Khadk Bahadur Shrestha of Sindhupalchok, Man Bahadur Karki of Udaipur, Ash Bahadur Gung of Gorkha, Padam Nepal of Morang, Lakpa Tamang of Nuwakot and Manoj Tharu of Kapilvastu have been stranded for four months.

19 Nepalese youths who have been cheated in the name of foreign employment are requesting the media to take the rescue initiative so that the principal and interest will be returned from Manpower. The young man was taken to Unique Star General Security Guard Service and Noor Al Afsa General Clinic Service Company on different dates to be employed as a sanitation worker. He has said that in the company mentioned in the contract, the workers are kept elsewhere and used for different jobs.

It is said that 12 of the 19 Nepali youths who were stranded were kept in a warehouse-like house in a place called Sarja Safezone. Seven other youths are kept elsewhere. They say that they reached UAE by paying 1 lakh 35 thousand to 2 lakh 20 thousand to manpower businessman Rajkumar Chaudhary, Shyam Vishwakarma, Nirajan Pandey, Sandeep Wagle, Shambhudas Tati and Kumar Tamang.

The youth who came to the UAE after taking out a loan are sometimes sent to school, sometimes to the mosque, sometimes to the road, sometimes to the sofa company to do heavy lifting of 70/80 kg. Sanjay Thapa, an Indian and a Nepalese named Nias, is looking for work in other companies, works for a few days and keeps it in his room until he finds a job.

Parshuram said through a video that he had to eat at his own expense on days when he was not working. Tilak Bahadur Goldsmith of Parshuram and Dhading and other youths arrived in UAE for four months on February 11th.

'Here they keep us in a place like a warehouse, and wherever they find work, they contact us and send us there, sometimes they make us work for 10 days and keep the rest in the room,' Parshuram said, 'Until now, I have not been able to see the company, even when I search on Google, I can't find it. Instead of taking you to the same company, they brought you at the cost of money, they tell you to do what they say, if you talk too much, they threaten you by saying that they will take you to a lonely road, and if you tell anyone to Nepal, they will cut your money.

He said that he was forced to starve for three days only a few days ago due to lack of work and wages. "When they ask for money, they ask to get food from Nepal. If they find out that they have contacted the house, they will take them to another place. It does not matter if they are alive or dead," he said. "We are preparing to go to the embassy with the help of the police. They send them to work without even allowing them to rest, even when they ask for their passports back, they don't give them.'

The victim complains that the manpower in Nepal is ignored when they contact him. Sandeep Wagle, who understood the bail amount of Parshuram and Rajkumar, and Nirajan Pandey, who coordinated it, are switched off. The victim said that he used different numbers to threaten them through Viber.