The Director-Common of the Nationwide Company for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Individuals, Prof Fatima Waziri-Azi, has mentioned that Nigerian ladies working in Iraq are exploited in various methods.
The DG disclosed this in a press release whereas talking on the plight of younger ladies, saying that almost all of them labored as home employees in Iraq, and had been exploited on day by day foundation.
Waziri-Azi mentioned that a lot of the younger Nigeria ladies had been now requesting for help to return house.
She mentioned that NAPTIP was at the moment investigating a number of rogue labour recruiters who had been reported to be large gamers within the huge recruitment of Nigerians to Iraq for home servitude.
The DG additionally mentioned that consciousness by the company and different companions on the well-known vacation spot international locations throughout the globe had now made traffickers to shift consideration to Iraq.
“We’re inundated with pleas for rescue and repatriation from feminine victims trafficked to Iraq, particularly to the cities of Baghdad and Basra the place they’re distributed to properties by their recruiters to a tough lifetime of home servitude.
“Obtainable info exhibits that many of those victims have been admitted to hospital many occasions on account of lengthy work hours below harsh circumstances they’re pressured to endure.
“Most of them have complained of deteriorating well being ensuing from the burden of labor.
“They’re always below menace of being harmed both by their direct employers or the Iraqi brokers, every time they complained of insufferable workload.
“A lot of them don’t have any entry to their telephones as a result of their telephones are seized instantly, they’re paired with an employer.
“They’re by no means allowed out of the premises the place they’re serving and even when communication is established with them for rescue, they can’t give particulars of their location,” she mentioned.
The DG said that the state of affairs was a scary one, including that the workload imposed on the susceptible by their taskmasters was very worrisome.
Waziri-Azi said that Nigerian ladies had been always being sexually harassed by members of the family the place they had been serving, and this aggravated their state of affairs.
She known as on Nigerians to be cautioned of this determined quest to journey in a foreign country for greener pastures, including that it was the rationale many Nigerians wished to journey.
The DG said that many Nigerian ladies had fallen prey to traffickers and the lies of labour recruiters who promised them juicy jobs abroad.
She burdened the necessity for individuals to guage each supply that got here their approach rigorously and look for second and third opinion earlier than accepting such presents exterior the nation.
Based on her, “If a sponsor facilitates your journey, you’ll be pressured to do any job to repay your sponsor earlier than incomes cash for your self.”
The DG said that NAPTIP would proceed to work with related Ministries, Division and Companies in Nigeria and companions to make sure the protected return of the victims from Iraq.
(NAN)
