By Ven Arigo
Bohol ChronicleThree more overseas workers have followed the recent ill fates suffered by their fellow Boholanos in the Arab lands and neighboring Asian countries.
One returned home dead yesterday. Another will get back also lifeless tomorrow. The third was raped and is arriving tonight.
The wish of overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Argeo Gulay Bumotad to live to the time when all his three children shall have succeeded in their studies has died with him.
The lifeless body of the 43-year-old oil refinery foreman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from Guindulman was met by his grieving wife Marigel and kids Glenn Jes, Jerson Paul and Jiether at the Tagbilaran City port yesterday afternoon.
Glenn Jes just graduated his marine engineering and Jerson will finish marine transportation in March next year while the youngest is still in elementary grade. The Bumotads reside at Tamblot Street here.
The OFW was reported to have died of cardiac arrest caused by heat stroke in Tunda, his specific Saudi job site, last June 12 but his remains were not released since his family here initially wanted his corpse autopsied.
Rep. Edgar Chatto facilitated the return of dead Bumotad and even had an office staff accompanying the family in meeting the remains of the OFW at the city port.
But hours to Bumotad corpse's arrival, Chatto got a request for help to facilitate the transport also to Bohol of one more dead OFW named Ricardo Omas-as, a Loaynon who worked in Semporna, East Sabah, Malaysia.
Omas-as reportedly died in prison few months ago but his remains had not been repatriated until the First District congressman learned of the OFW's case.
The OFW, 40 and unmarried during his death, had been almost half a year jailed for alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl whose nationality was yet to be ascertained.
Omas-as' remains will arrive here tomorrow.
He is the fifth OFW from Bohol after Bumotad who would return home dead this year.
Chatto already arranged the Bumotad remains' transport, including funeral car service here.
The third latest case of returning OFW involves a 30-year-old married OFW from Tagbilaran City who was raped in Kuwait where she worked as a domestic helper.
Nelle (not her real name) was raped by an Arab police officer who threatened to tear her passport apart should she not go with him to his house.
The lawman was described as a victim's "sponsor," not her employer.
Nelle sought assistance from the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait and was later brought to the office there of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA).
The crime of flesh was committed by the police officer against the Boholana maid already months ago.
Nelle yearned to be immediately repatriated to the Philippines but her flight was cancelled thrice for yet unknown reason.
Her sister sought help from Chatto, who immediately contacted OWWA and other agencies here, even the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait.
There are no clear details yet on how did she met her sexual attacker and why her passport had gone to the possession of the police officer.
Nelle then kept to herself her ordeal, thinking she could manage be her own in that situation.
Later on June 28, her sister informed Chatto in a letter that Nelle "was in jail."
Her sister lamented why Nelle suffered from such a consequence when she is the victim in the first place.
Finally, Chatto got assurance from Ambassador Endaya that Nelle would be repatriated and flown to Manila aboard Kuwait Airways today.
She is the second Boholana OFW repatriated from an Arab country after being subjected to the cruelty of the sex-starved.
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