Najimeddin Hisham Najim, the Muko Protection Agency boss has urged Ugandans to always utilize only registered companies while processing traveling arrangements to avoid trafficking and its related challenges.
He remarked while receiving three victims of human rights violations who were returned from Jordan, where they had spent months of uncomfortable moments. All Ugandans, namely Rosemary Tulituka, Veronica Nankya, and Sheebah Mirembe Nakakembo, arrived at the Entebbe International Airport on Sunday, 24th November, with Ethiopian Airlines.
Najimeddin said that when one uses a registered company, assurance of a proper job is guaranteed, and if things turn negatively, there’s always an immediate solution, which is not the case with any other person who wouldn’t have used a registered company.
“However, as we do this, let’s also be careful about online trafficking because it’s also common nowadays, especially in the youth who are always trapped through their social media handles,” he noted.
In addition, the CEO also urged agent companies to stop such acts because it is the main cause of human abuse, among other challenges that are being faced by the people who move abroad for work.
According to Sheebah Mirembe Nakakembo, with the help of an agent who is also her in-law, only identified as Molshid, she traveled to Jordan for a saloon job; however, after three months, the job was done.
In addition, she said that on her arrival at the airport in Jordan, she was picked up by a certain guy directly to a private home, which scared her; however, on the next day, she was driven to work in the saloon.
“After working for only three months, my boss told me that the assignment was done and then forwarded me again back to the home, but on our way, the police intervened, and later, I was charged with stealing gold, which I didn’t have,” she narrated.
Nakakembo added that after several court sessions, her boss withdrew the case, but she was still taken to prison until when one, identified as Maama Melissa, intervened for her rescue and processed her travel documents as well.
On the other hand, Tulituka and Nankya also explained different human violence cases that forced them to escape from their homes to look for survival, but in return, they ended up in jail.
However, on their arrival, Veronica Nankya looked to be in pain because she couldn’t even stand for long, as well as having difficulties while walking, saying that it was all caused by overworking.
Nakakembo, Tulituka, and Nankya returned just a few weeks after the government of the Republic of Uganda, through the Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development, had repatriated more than 100 Ugandans from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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