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Zambia Police warns citizens about fake jobs abroad

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Zambia Police Service has called on community members to be alert and not fall prey to unverified job promises outside the country so as not to become victims of human trafficking.

In an interview with ZANIS, Zambia Police Assistant Public Relations Officer Godfrey Chilabi said community members should know before they go to job promises outside the country.

Mr. Chilabi said the Police Service has recorded a lot of cases of human trafficking especially in border towns and nearby areas.

He said that Zambia being part of the global community which includes international movements falls prey to be victims of human trafficking.

Mr. Chilabi said the country is both the destination and recruitment point for human trafficking and women and children are the majority victims.

He added that Zambia police service, Ministry of Community Development and Social Services in partnership with International Organization for Migration (IOM), is conducting sensitization programs on human trafficking.

The Assistant Public Relations Officer stated that sensitizations are aimed at informing the public to be alert on the signs of human trafficking and places to report suspected traffickers.

He added that the sensitization currently running is themed “know before you go” because most people are desperate for job opportunities outside the country even without necessary qualification.

Mr. Chilabi stated that there is lack of information among the people on what signs to look out for in international promises that seem too good to be true.

Further, Mr. Chilabi added that lack of employment, poverty, lack of information has caused people to be easily deceived with job promises.

He said it is important to seek job opportunities outside the country but people should be informed on those destination and type of employment being offered.

Meanwhile Senanga District Social Welfare Officer Victor Walubita said sensitization programs in the district will continue with the help of CWACS as they are community based.

Mr. Walubita said they will take advantage of the opportunity when distributing money for Social Cash Transfer (SCT).

And community members expressed happiness over the sensitizations that have started in communities.

A community member Mubita Kapinda said the sensitization on human trafficking has made the community to be aware of the vice and report when they receive any suspicions to the relevant offices.

Ms. Kapinda said most victims who are children and women will be protected and eliminating the vice needs working collectively.

Recently, six Senanga residents who were victims of human trafficking were retrieved from Namibia with the help of Zambia Police, IOM and department of social welfare.

This was after being trafficked by a Senanga resident promising them well-paying jobs in that country.

19 COMMENTS

  1. Police should have warned Zambians about the fake 500,000 jobs Lungu and PF promised and lied to Zambians. He created two, for himself and Tasila.

    • Human trafficking into modern slavery is now so widespread in Zambia
      especially through maid, job centers!
      Most Zambians, within Zambia working as , nannies, maids, garden boys are abused and underpaid afterworking for long hours, by their employers.
      Indians, Lebanese, Egyptians, Boers, Congolese, Chinese in Zambia are the worst when it comes to mistreating their Zambian workers.
      If you care for your people tell them how to defend themselves by encouraging them not to take any nonesense from foreigners!!

    • “*If you care about your people tell them how to defend themselves by encouraging them not to take any nonesense from foreigners!!*”

    • UGANDA: Maids recount torture in Oman
      Staff Reporter | April 2, 2018
      KAMPALA (DAILY MONITOR) – The desperate search for casual jobs abroad has continued to haunt jobless Ugandans particularly women who are trafficked to the Middle East Arab countries by unscrupulous agents to work as domestic servants. The women are later subjected to inhuman treatment, including sexual abuse.

      The Ministry of Labour, Gender and Social Development has tried to streamline procedures for employment abroad by liaising with labour exporting companies to ensure the job seekers’ rights not violated at their work stations away from home.
      Most Ugandans, who undertake the established government procedure, have enjoyed their employment abroad and improved their livelihoods back home.
      However, their…

    • By Anna Dubuis Nov 25, 2016

      In the small town of Mtwapa on the Kenyan coast, a group of women sit in a circle sharing tales of r a p e, torture and slavery. They all went to work as maids in the Middle East hoping to earn decent money. They all came home destitute and broken.

      “I was just a slave. They tricked me and I was sold. I worked and worked. My boss would slap me and beat me. He said: ‘If you do not remove your clothes I will cut your neck,’” Adia, 24, told VICE News

    • Reuters/James Akena
      ‘Nannies needed’
      THE NEW OUTSOURCING
      Uganda will send its college graduates to Saudi Arabia to work as maids…“It is not only housemaids but other domestic workers such as like private drivers, shop keepers and security guards.”
      By Omar MohammedJuly 10, 2015

  2. Iam LIVING OVERSEAS NOT ABROAD, ABROAD IS USELESS BUT OVERSEAS HAS ALOT ADVANTAGES , LET ZAMBIA ATTRACT PEOPLE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES NOT JUST TUMA CHAICHAI

    • Daily Monitor has learnt there are many Ugandan workers facing untold suffering from their employers alias “sponsors” in some of the Arab countries. In some cases, the sponsors withhold their pay or accommodate them in isolated buildings which exposes them to rape and other sexual violence.

      An investigation by this newspaper has established that currently there are about 20,000 Ugandans working in the Gulf country of Oman. It is in this country that Ugandans, especially women working as housemaids are going through the worst conditions which include torture, abuse and starvation.

    • Daily Monitor has learnt there are many Ugandan workers facing untold suffering from their employers alias “sponsors” in some of the Arab countries. In some cases, the sponsors withhold their pay or accommodate them in isolated buildings which exposes them to r a p e and other s e x u a l violence.

      An investigation by this newspaper has established that currently there are about 20,000 Ugandans working in the Gulf country of Oman. It is in this country that Ugandans, especially women working as housemaids are going through the worst conditions which include torture, abuse and starvation.

  3. If there were enough jobs in zambia then nobody would be tempted to go abroad in search of a job and fall prey to such vices. Government is to blame for this.

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      Uganda bans housemaids from working in Saudi Arabia

      Ugandan women claim abuse and torture in audio recording that went viral and prompted government action.

  4. What some black African maids are going through in Saudi Arabia

    May 31, 2017

    What some black African maids are going through in Saudi Arabia an middle east being abused. “VIRAL VIDEO”

  5. Forced prostitution
    Each year, women from across eastern Europe and west Africa are lured to the UK by the dream of a better life. Whether by fake migration services or unscrupulous individuals who befriend and then betray them, women fall into a dark spiral of sexual exploitation and forced, unpaid prostitution, unable to escape

  6. African maids say cheated, seek return – ‘Rescue us from this hell’

    20/12/2017

    KUWAIT CITY, Dec 20: A domestic worker from Ivory Coast sent a plea to her country’s government to rescue her from what she describes as hell, reports Al-Qabas daily. She asked the government to help her and a number of her compatriots in Kuwait to retrieve their passports and return home. “Our dear parents please make a move! Our officials in our country, come and help us out”, she said in a video she posted on social networking sites in which a large group of women and men from her country can be seen.

    She explained, “We are facing problems in Kuwait. Do you see this room? All these people came here to work honorably, including qualified employees, pregnant women and patients. Every one of us has an…

    • ….,,Every one of us has an educational certificate, but our brothers cheated us, tricked us, took millions of African francs from us and then sold us. We are suffering. We were beaten in the houses where we went to work and deprived of our salaries, food and good treatment”.

      The woman revealed, “I used to work as a cashier but I left my three-month-old son to come to Kuwait only to find myself working as a maid here. I do not eat or sleep. Look at the traces of beatings on my shoulders. We wake up at 5 am and work continuously until 1 am the next day”.

  7. ” Nawal Al Ramahi
    July 19, 2018
    Dubai woman arrested for beating maid to death
    A woman has been arrested on charges of beating her African maid to death, Dubai Police have said.

    The woman, a GCC national, called for an ambulance to her home in Al Nahda this year, claiming her maid fell into a coma after falling down the stairs.

    “Upon arrival, paramedics said the maid was dead and signs of torture were found on her body,” said Col Ahmed Al Marri, director of crime scenes at Dubai Police.”

  8. Kenyan maid burnt by her Saudi employer arrives in the country

    Sonko rescue team picked up the lady at JKIA
    By
    Mercy Mbuvi –
    May 30, 2016

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