Duterte to lift deployment ban to Kuwait if he sees OFW killers behind bars

February 22, 2018

President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday a total deployment ban of overseas Filipino workers in Kuwait will only be lifted once he sees the killers of a Filipina household worker behind bars.

"I'd tell you know, until and unless the two are arrested and they are really behind bars, the deployment of OFWs to (Kuwait) will remain. Really banned," Duterte said in speech during his visit in a military camp in Iloilo City.

Prior to going to the camp, Duterte visited the wake of Joanna Demafelis, the OFW who went missing for almost one year and was found recently inside a freezer in an apartment in Kuwait.

Authorities have been conducting a manhunt for the arrest of a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife who were the prime suspects in the death of Demafelis. Celerina Monte/DMS