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Kathmandu,Friday January 21, 2000 Magh 07th, 2056.
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Punish the guilty
The
way the nine of the twenty Nepali nationals sent by an unidentified manpower supply agent
for overseas employment were deported the other day shows that this sector is largely
unpoliced and in disarray. Those deported by the Abu Dhabi immigration authority would not
have been so "humiliated" had there been some semblance of "responsibility
and professionalism" on the part of those who supply manpower to foreign countries.
This has not only maligned the country's image as a manpower supplier but also led them to
believe that the country has become a haven for swindlers. This is also an insult to those
genuine manpower suppliers who have been abiding by government rules and regulations.
Their credibility too is at stake because of such incidents.
Some
unidentified Kathmandu based foreign manpower agents had sent 20 Nepali nationals with
fake passports to an undisclosed foreign country for employment. Fortunately, they were
caught by the immigration authority at Abu Dhabi airport while sneaking into another
aircraft. The manner the foreign employment agents had affixed the photographs of those
who were travelling in the passport shows that such illegal activities are being carried
out with the connivance of policing and non-policing authorities. What is surprising in
this regard is that overseas job seekers even do not know the real culprits behind such
heinous activities.
But
there are some questions that have to be answered. First of all, how did overseas job
seekers manage to get fake passports? Has the government taken any action against those
foreign employment agents which were involved in such activities in the past ? Has
the government investigated how those with fake passports were allowed to board aircraft
at TIA? The immigration scrutiny arrangement at the TIA appears to be less than adequate
and the government does not seem to realise that professional people with training are
required to man the positions at sensitive areas like international airports and
international borders.
Last
year, one of the foreign employment agents had deceived a number of overseas job seekers
in the country. The government failed to trace the agent’s whereabouts, let alone
taking any action against the firm. There are some people who have been running such
rackets in the capital and such activities have pushed the country's image downward. This
is due to the lack of effective implementation of laws on the part of the concerned
authorities that this sort of things keep happening and innocent and gullible Nepalis are
taken for costly rides. How long will the government keep silent and allow unscrupulous
elements to carry out such nefarious activities at the cost of the people and of the
country's image? The government has no option but to prevent such activities and
punish those who are guilty.
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