Director of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Amin Mohamed, asked to probe activities at ASMAK.
By ABDULHAKIM SHERMAN
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A member of the Association of Skilled Migrant Workers of Kenya (ASMAK) has written to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (CID) asking them to investigate alleged malfeasance in the organization.
Mr Moses Adala, the managing director of Competitive Manpower International Ltd says he has been denied a license by ASMAK for pointing out corrupt activities by officials of the association for companies that recruit Kenyans going to work abroad.
“ASMAK has refused to renew my application for a new license because some officials there allege I have been undermining them,” he said.
Mr Adala in a letter dated June 20 and addressed to the Director of Criminal Investigations (CID) and copied to the Registrar of Societies, Principal Secretary (PS), Ministry of Labour and the consular section at the Saudi Arabia embassy, wants ASMAK officials to be probed for overreaching their mandate.
He says any member who questions unfair and unpopular decisions made by ASMAK officials is threatened, intimidated, removed from the association’s WhatsApp group and mailing lists and denied renewal of their licenses.
“Anybody who questions them is threatened by being chased during license renewal with no cause or warning to that (sic) matter,” he says in his letter to the DCI.
Mr Adala wants the DCI to investigate the ASMAK officials on how they utilized the association’s funds during a trip to Uganda, money allegedly contributed to vulnerable groups during the 2023 drought.
He also want to know why ASMAK officials are still collecting Sh 500 from the association’s members every time they take documents to them to be forwarded to the Saudi Arabia embassy for processing of visas for those going to work there yet the embassy had exempted them from such charges.
“We will be very grateful if a conclusive investigation is done so that members don’t lose their money,” he adds in his letter to different government agencies.
Mr Adala also wants to know why the association has refused to call fresh or repeat elections even after being directed so by the registrar of societies.
