“Immigration vows action on labour export firms for withholding 8,000 workers passports”

Labor exporters are illegally withholding more than 8,000 passports, the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) has revealed. Simon Peter Mundeyi, the Internal Affairs Ministry Spokesperson, says that they have been receiving complaints from mostly women whose passports have been confiscated by labour export firms.

Mundeyi said after receiving the complaints, they conducted secret investigations and have since established that more than 8,000 passports are unlawfully being withheld by labour export companies…

Some of the reasons why the labor export business has been slow this year are the increased outcry of Ugandans being exploited, mistreated, raped, and even killed in the Arab world…

Because of such stories, the minister for labor Betty Among alongside the Internal Affairs Minister, Kahinda Otafiire, decided to step up the scrutiny of labor exporters in Uganda and employers in the Arab world…

A 23-year-old female who was found at the Saud Arabia embassy office along Yusuf Lule Road said she applied for a receptionist job in Saudi Arabia through a labor export company in March this year but they keep postponing her travel days…