MEDIA report on Sunday said Qatar government is expelling over three thousand Bangladeshi workers and they can leave the country by November 30 when clemency will expire. They had left the country spending lot of money but manpower agents left them abandoned as illegal workers. What appears highly agonizing is the fact that our government takes boosts for being the biggest manpower exporters but does not take shame from failing to protect them.
We also wonder what our Embassy has done if so many workers are facing expulsion, except advancing their self-seeking interests. We are terribly upset by the news and ask the government to take the issue immediately with the Qatar government at a time when it needs many workers to build infrastructure for 2022 Olympic Games. Qatar is a brotherly Muslim country and we hope it will listen to our concern.
We are deeply disturbed by the fact that several hundred workers have already returned and others who will fail to leave the country within the stipulated time will face three months jail and 50,000 Qatari dinars fine. It means they are at bigger risks. News report further said over 30 workers returned home from Dammam in Saudi Arabia on Friday. Others are also regularly returning with their dream shattered to bring prosperity to their families. Yet another report on Thursday said 25 Bangladeshi workers returned home from Afghanistan where they were hold up in a factory for last 10 months after manpower agents took them out of the country on promise of good jobs and dumped them in the war ravaged country.
Traffickers are regularly collecting young job aspirants from the countryside dodging law enforcers’ eyes and sending them to Libya, which is also a war torn country on promise to ship them to Italy. Most such voyagers are drowning in the Mediterranean. We don’t know what steps our government has taken so far to protect such job-seekers from evil hands.
Reports said over 12 to 15 thousand Bangladeshi workers out of around three lakhs illegal in Qatar facing expulsion. The fact is that a section of Bangladesh immigration officers allow safe corridor to such illegal trafficking despite the plight of such workers regularly capturing media headlines. Such traffickers have put thousands of illegal workers in Malaysia, UAE and other places adding their safety at risks.
We must say the only remedy to such human plight is to create enough jobs in the economy to allow our younger people to earn their livelihood within the country. But such move is facing setback from incompetent leadership and corrupt bureaucracy. As self-seekers they have no sympathy for the poor while trying to get rich overnight. Our manpower sector is the biggest exploit to dishonest people. It must be protected at any cost.
We also wonder what our Embassy has done if so many workers are facing expulsion, except advancing their self-seeking interests. We are terribly upset by the news and ask the government to take the issue immediately with the Qatar government at a time when it needs many workers to build infrastructure for 2022 Olympic Games. Qatar is a brotherly Muslim country and we hope it will listen to our concern.
We are deeply disturbed by the fact that several hundred workers have already returned and others who will fail to leave the country within the stipulated time will face three months jail and 50,000 Qatari dinars fine. It means they are at bigger risks. News report further said over 30 workers returned home from Dammam in Saudi Arabia on Friday. Others are also regularly returning with their dream shattered to bring prosperity to their families. Yet another report on Thursday said 25 Bangladeshi workers returned home from Afghanistan where they were hold up in a factory for last 10 months after manpower agents took them out of the country on promise of good jobs and dumped them in the war ravaged country.
Traffickers are regularly collecting young job aspirants from the countryside dodging law enforcers’ eyes and sending them to Libya, which is also a war torn country on promise to ship them to Italy. Most such voyagers are drowning in the Mediterranean. We don’t know what steps our government has taken so far to protect such job-seekers from evil hands.
Reports said over 12 to 15 thousand Bangladeshi workers out of around three lakhs illegal in Qatar facing expulsion. The fact is that a section of Bangladesh immigration officers allow safe corridor to such illegal trafficking despite the plight of such workers regularly capturing media headlines. Such traffickers have put thousands of illegal workers in Malaysia, UAE and other places adding their safety at risks.
We must say the only remedy to such human plight is to create enough jobs in the economy to allow our younger people to earn their livelihood within the country. But such move is facing setback from incompetent leadership and corrupt bureaucracy. As self-seekers they have no sympathy for the poor while trying to get rich overnight. Our manpower sector is the biggest exploit to dishonest people. It must be protected at any cost.
