East Africa: Those Who Covet Working Abroad Should Be Watchful!

8 February 2016
opinion

Recently, the Ugandan government decided to ban the recruitment and deployment of Ugandans as migrant workers in any foreign country. The decision came as a result of multiple cases of ill-treatment of Ugandans who went to the Arab world in search of greener pastures. The menace faced by Ugandan migrant workers is not an isolated case, but abuses that have been going on against many migrants who went to the Arab world in search of menial jobs.

A barrage of cases of inhuman treatment has widely been reported by the media where some of migrant workers have been subjected to servitude. For example, some migrant workers were sexually abused, forced to have sexual intercourse with dogs, subjected to slave labour with unbearable low wage or no payment at all, coerced to work without a rest and so forth.

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