"You Are Aiding Human Trafficking"-Diaspora Committee Chair, Akande-Sadipe Accuses Ministry of Labour
Chairman, House of Representative Committee on Diaspora, Hon. Tolulope Akande-Sadipe has decried the incompetence and complicity within the Ministry of Labour and Productivity, which has worsened the trafficking and dehumanizing conditions of Nigerians abroad. She said this recently during the Committee’s meeting, noting that the Minister for Labour and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige has turned down the Committee’s invite for the umpteenth time. The release signed by her Special Assistant on Media, Olamilekan Olusada reads that, “It appears that there is a clear incompetence or complicity within the ministry that has led to this compromise in the trafficking and abuse of Nigeria citizens”. “We have invited him five (5) times and he was again represented by a Permanent Secretary, who claims he is new and does not understand the workings and what transpired prior to his engagement, in spite of having signed a recruiters licence earlier this year, at a time when a moratorium