Trafficking six victims
Security forces have busted a Preferred consultants limited, a labor export company located in Kawempe Mbogo for trafficking labour abroad.
The labour export company was netted by Crime Intelligence and Aviation Security officers following intelligence information that they were sending victims to Saudi Arabia and Oman illegally without getting formal clearance from relevant bodies.
Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga says the company has been operating using an expired licence. He says police was able to rescue six victims slated for exportation to Oman and Saudi Arabia via Cairo- Egypt over the weekend.
Uganda has become a source and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Ugandan children are trafficked within the country, as well as to Canada, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia for forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation.
Trafficking six victims
According to Agnes Igoye, the Deputy National Coordinator Prevention of Trafficking in Persons at the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control, in 2021 they received 421 incidents that had 1,000 victims involved.
Out of the cases reported, 30 were successfully investigated and culprits were charged and convicted under the Prevention of Trafficking Act.
The vice is very common in Karamoja, Busoga, and the central region districts of Kalungu, Masaka, Rakai and Luweero. In the South Western Uganda Rubirizi, Isingiro and Bushenyi are the most affected.
