Gospel singer Jimmy Gait is currently trending as Kenyans have expressed their anger over an insensitive comment that he made during a recent interview on K24 whereby he was talking about Kenyans killed in Saudi Arabia and other Middle East nations.
Gait suggested that women workers killed in the Middle East nations were to blame as they indulge in illicit affairs with their employers.
He claimed, "There are so many Kenyan men working in the Middle East in Saudi, Qatar, Dubai the reason you don’t hear about men being mistreated is because they do not go sleeping with their bosses’ wives."
The host, Mbuvi Mung'ala, sought his comment on rampant deaths of Kenyans abroad after the Furi Furi Dance hitmaker mentioned that he runs a company involved with finding gainful employment for Kenyans abroad.
Mung'ala posed, "Which jobs are you helping people get because, far as I'm concerned... The jobs that are in especially Saudi Arabia are the ones we call here, 'kazi ya kuwa mboch' and a huge chunk of them have ended up dead, some of them say they have been sold into slavery, sex slavery and so on, is that true?"
While expounding on his business, Gait made the insensitive comment on Kenyan women.
He stated, "Before I started this whole initiative, I had the same kind of mentality... until I got the full information of what happens there and I can tell you now than ever before, that anyone who would like to go work there.”
"There's always a story behind the story. When all these ladies come out and say that they have been mistreated, they never say why they were mistreated. There is always a reason why they were mistreated... I can tell you that the number one reason these girls get mistreated is indiscipline, most of them are very undisciplined, you'll find that they go sleeping with people's husbands," Gait explained further.
According to the Huratiti hitmaker, some Kenyan women steal from their employers, and others who leave their workstations to seek out better opportunities where they run into crooks.
Gait asserted, "Those people who get mistreated are a very small fraction of those working in Middle East, but because they come out online and that's a huge community then their stories overshadow the truth which is that hundreds of thousands of Kenyans are doing well in the Middle East, and those are the ones who are disciplined."
A section of Kenyans online were angered by Gait’s remark, terming it offensive.
It's the AUDACITY to shame and blame the same people who made JIMMY GAIT WHO HE IS, the families upcountry who send their loved ones to the Middle East. When he was falling for a "sweet mama" muhadhara, did we blame him for being broke?" Adam Maina stated.
Lydia Namubiru also wrote, "Besides being horrifyingly misogynistic, this is also disturbingly inaccurate. Migrant men are being murdered there and their deaths are passed off as suicides, drowning, and many living ones are languishing in local jails."
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