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FG Threatens To Sanction Expatriate Policy Violators
The Special Ministerial Task Force on Monitoring and Enforcement of Nigerian Expatriate Business Permit and Expatriate Quota Administration has said the Federal Government would sanction any company that fails to comply with the law guiding the employment of qualified Nigerians to understudy expatriates.
To ensure compliance with the policy, the task force has directed companies in the country to submit the Tax Identification Numbers, National Identification Numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses of Nigerians understudying expatriates in their firms.
The Chairman of the task force, Mr Bola Ilori, said in a statement, yesterday, that all companies must submit the details of Nigerians understudying expatriates within their organisations to verify their sincerity or otherwise.
He said this decision was reached after the meeting of the task force with representatives of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC); Nigerian Bar Association (NBA); Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE); other professional bodies, and officials of the Ministry of Interior.
He said any company found to be playing tricks to deny qualified Nigerians jobs would face heavy sanctions from the Federal Government.
Ilori said, “Every company must submit the details of Nigerians understudying expatriates in their organisations. They must submit the Tax Identification Numbers, National Identity Numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses of each Nigerian understudying expatriates in their companies.
“We have discovered that some of the companies are not sincere, they just want to keep renewing the permits of their expatriates at the detriment of Nigerians. We want to know whether they are circumventing the policy or they adhere to it.
“The problem is that some of these companies are either not employing Nigerians at all or using school certificate holders to be understudying expatriates who are managers. How can a school certificate holder understudy a manager?
“When the exit time comes, they will say Nigerians understudying the expatriates do not have the capacity to step into such positions. How can a school certificate holder succeed a manager when we have millions of BSc and Master’s degree holders. But they do that deliberately to defeat the purpose of the policy of the Federal Government.”
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