How Myanmar became destination for trafficked East Africans
Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Alfred Mutua. His ministry says Kenyans continue to fall prey to online job scammers, who are searching for innocent people to sell to Chinese cartels. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NMG
On a Facebook page routinely appearing in the East African region, ‘models’, saleswomen and teachers of English are invited to apply for jobs ranging from marketing, language classes and translation.
And the promised pay is hefty, by East African standards. One offer for a ‘sales specialist’ promises one to earn Thai Baht (TBH) 7,5000 (about KSh256,000 or $2,098) per month. A bilingual translator could earn up to $3,000, mostly to work at a call centre where clients are foreign speakers of English or some other language. It is an added advantage if you can speak Chinese and are white, but good looks generally will do you fine.
