The Leader Parliament Joel Ssenyonyi has urged MPs to follow the stories that are being told by the external labour workers that are being exposed on social media in order to understand the ordeal these workers go through while working abroad.
“This very week, there has been a trending hashtag on social media, labour export exhibition and for you who are twitter friendly, find time and go there, of girls that have gone through grotesque ordeals some eventually made it through the country and are undergoing treatment, it will just give you a picture of what is happening,” said Joel Ssenyonyi.
Ssenyonyi also critiqued a suggestion by the Minister of Labor to put a mobile app where these people Ugandans working abroad can report their cases!
“The Minister talked about an app, that is okay, but when these girls report to these countries, their travel documents are confiscated, they don’t have passports, identity cards and they have no phone, they are literally slaves, so now that you are talking of an app, how are they meant to access it? We really need to be more practical about these issues. An app is a good thing, for those that can eventually access but let us not limit ourselves,” said Ssenyonyi.
