The Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons NAPTIP Fatima Waziri-Azi, has said that Nigerian women working in Iraq are exploited in diverse ways.
The D-G said this in a statement while speaking on the plight of young women, saying that most of them worked as domestic workers in Iraq, and were exploited on daily basis.
Waziri-Azi said that most of the young Nigeria women were now requesting for assistance to return home.
She said that NAPTIP was currently investigating several rogue labour recruiters who had been reported to be big players in the massive recruitment of Nigerians to Iraq for domestic servitude.
The DG also said that awareness by the agency and other partners on the well known destination countries across the globe had now made traffickers to shift attention to Iraq.
Waziri-Azi stated that the situation was a scary one, adding that the workload imposed on the vulnerable by their taskmasters was very worrisome.
