July 11th 2019
Ugandan Parliament on July 11,2019 ordered the minister of Gender, Labour and social Development to give a detailed status report to the country on the exported Labour, indicating which Labour export companies blacklisted and those granted license.
This after Mukono Municipality MP, Betty Nambooze wanted to move parliament to prevail over government to ban labour export companies.
Nambooze said that government should instead set up a public funded labour agency at the ministry gender and labour headed by a commissioner to stop profit-oriented private companies who allegedly sell citizens into slavery.
The deputy speaker said that government should have a system showing which person taken by which company for labour and to which country.
He noted that there is over generalization labour companies for facilitating the mistreatment and exploitation of Ugandans going abroad for jobs yet some are doing a good job.
He attacked the ministry of Gender and labour for not responding to issues parliament raised when the same matter brought to parliament in past.
