The Deputy Attorney General, Jackson Kafuuzi has met with the Senior Presidential Advisor on Diaspora Affairs, Amb. Abbey Walusimbi to discuss the issue of labour externalization.
Ambassador Walusimbi was recently appointed to help in the ongoing verification process for the authenticity of the different labour externalization companies in Uganda before both meeting on Saturday for further discuss the matter.
The duo discussed the need for a collective approach to harmonize labour externalization to which the Deputy Attorney General suggested the need to identify countries with best practices in the field of labour externalization and benchmark to adopt the measures that made their stories a success.
On the issue of the Ugandan embassy not intervening in case of distress calls by Ugandans in the Middle East, Walusimbi said although the embassy is responsible for all citizens in its jurisdiction, many enter the countries through illegal ways. END