BBC: David Kuloba’s mother warned him about going to Russia after he accepted a job as a security guard advertised by a recruitment agency in Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At first the family, who live in the Kenyan capital’s crowded informal settlement of Kibera had been excited when he said he had found work abroad – it sounded like a rare break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 22-year-old had been doing casual labour in Nairobi – from selling groundnuts to construction jobs – and had long hoped to secure work in the Gulf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But when his mother asked which country he was heading to, his reply shocked her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“He showed me his phone and said: ‘Look, it’s Russia,'” Susan Kuloba told the BBC’s Newsday programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I told him: ‘Don’t you see what they show on TV about Russia? It’s never good,” she recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But her son insisted the offer was genuine, telling her he had been promised more than $7,000 (\u00a35,250) on arrival – a life-changing sum for a young man with no stable income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite her protests, he travelled to Russia in August without telling her the exact date of his departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was shocked when he contacted her later, saying he had arrived and sending a photograph of himself in full combat uniform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“He told me: ‘Mum, the job we were told we came to do has been changed, but even this one is not bad,'” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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