| Story Views | |
| Now: | |
| Last Hour: | |
| Last 24 Hours: | |
| Total: | |
Saudi OFWs cautioned amid foiled ‘terrorist’ plots
Sunday, August 26, 2012 20:40
% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.
Press Release
27 August 2012
Saudi OFWs cautioned amid foiled ‘terrorist’ plots
Women OFWs in Saudi Arabia (Migrante filephoto)
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) should take extra care, warned by a Filipino migrants’ rights group after Saudi Arabia’s news agency on Sunday revealed that local authorities have arrested ‘terrorist’ elements plotting to attack Saudi establishments and civilians in Saudi’s capital Riyadh.
An Associated Press (AP) news report cited the Saudi Press Agency quoting an unidentified official of the Saudi Interior Ministry who confirmed that there were six (6) Yemenis who were arrested after they allegedly ‘prepared explosives and experimented with them outside Riyadh’.
“We seldom heard such kind of reports coming from Saudi authorities. But whether it is true or not, OFWs and their families in Saudi Arabia should take extra care just like the local Saudis,” said Migrante-Middle East (M-ME) regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona.
Monterona, however, clarified that they would not like to sound alarmist, noting “Saudi Arabia is known to have a very strict immigration policies and an enhanced internal security measures after separate incidents of bombing took place in Riyadh sometime on 2000, and May 2003, respectively, at a compound killing altogether 35 people and 160 wounded including expatriate workers.”
“Even if it would mean restraint in movement by avoiding, as much as we could, to going into public places and establishments, let’s us do so for our safety,” Monterona averred.
Monterona cited a popular quote by an anonymous author that says, “Caution is not cowardly,” adding that OFWs have nothing to lose if they instill consciousness in taking extra care wherever they go and whatever they do.
There are an estimated 1.2-M Filipinos working all over Saudi Arabia, and consistently the No.1 destination of OFWs.
Reference:
John Leonard Monterona, regional coordinator
Migrante-Middle East
Mobile No. 00974 33 20 5565 / 0063 923 420 0112
–
Let me share this: If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn. – Thomas Merton
2012-08-26 20:35:45
Source: http://migranteme.blogspot.com/2012/08/saudi-ofws-cautioned-amid-foiled.html
Source:
