9 OFWs refuse to leave Libya
By Mina Diaz 03/08/2011Nine overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Jalu, Libya refused to join hundreds of fleeing Filipinos and other nationalities to escape Libya through the border of Egypt.
If I go home, there will be no work and my family may die of hunger. I will stay until the peace situation here would improve. It’s difficult to live in the Philippines, these were the words of Ernesto Jalumandi, an oil piper in Jalu, Libya who opted to stay there as he relayed it with Teodoro Mahabos who arrived in the country yesterday on board of Gulf Air GF 154 flight.
Mahabos, a native of Eastern Samar, was among the 23 OFWs from Libya that arrived yesterday at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. Mahabos and Jalumandi worked as oil piper at the Addiar Oil Services Co. in Jalu, Libya, about 600 kilometers away from the Egyptian border.
He said he did not know the full names of the other eight Filipinos that opted to stay in Libay since they have worked on the oil fields..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110308nat3.html
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