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MANILA, Philippines?Two groups of distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Nigeria and Jordan arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Sunday after being repatriated by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA).
These include six Filipino seamen from Abuja, Nigeria, and 102 OFWs from the Nadara detention center and Juada correction center in Jordan.
The Filipino seamen arrived at 8:45 a.m. on board Royal Dutch Airlines flight KL 803 while the OFWs from Jordan arrived in three batches at 11:10 a.m., 4:35 p.m. and 10:35 p.m.
?Most of the repatriated workers were irregular workers arrested by Jordanian authorities in a recent crackdown on foreigners for violations of Jordan?s immigration laws, according to OWWA Administrator Carmelito Dimzon.
Dimzon said the six?all crew members of MT Verro 1?complained of non-payment of salaries, poor food provision, and failure of their manning agency, Sea Gem Maritime International, to repatriate them at the end of their contracts.
OWWA identified the seamen as Franklin Farro, James Conde, Flomer Alonday, Antonio Requina, Ruben Ganub and Dennis Guadalupe.
