FG plans to save Nigerians working as maids in Iraq

Nigerian women in Iraq will receive assistance from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons.

Zacks Dauda, the NAPTIP spokesperson, revealed this to our correspondent on Monday.

The NAPTIP reportedly raised the alarm about the plight of young Nigerian women employed as domestic workers in Iraq on Wednesday last week, according to report.

Prof. Fatima Waziri-Azi, the director-general of NAPTIP, revealed that the organization was looking into a number of rogue labor recruiters who were thought to be major figures in the widespread recruitment of Nigerians to Iraq for domestic servitude.

Waziri-Ari claimed that the majority of the young Nigerian women employed there were routinely exploited in a variety of ways and are now pleading for help to go back home.

“We are flooded with requests for rescue and repatriation from female victims trafficked to Iraq, particularly to the cities of Baghdad and Basra, where they are assigned to homes by their recruiters to a difficult life of domestic servitude,” she said.

According to the information that is currently available, many of these victims have repeatedly been admitted to hospitals as a result of the demanding work schedules and challenging working conditions they are required to endure.

On Monday, NAPTIP spokesman Dauda provided an update on the situation, saying, “We do not have the number of Nigerian women in Iraq experiencing this terrible situation, but we are trying to find out where these cases are happening and we are trying to work with the Foreign Affairs Ministry to see if we can establish contacts and evacuate anyone we can find.”