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A one Atta Ahmed Rezk an Egyptian National and the Managing Director of an illegal labor export company called ‘Black horse’ located in Nsambya, Makindye Division in Kampala District, is entangled in human trafficking scandal following his arrest by security operatives that he had lured desperate young girls around the country promised to offer them jobs in Dubai, Jordan and Oman in the Middle East.
“I was convinced by the agents of this fake company from Iganga District, and my two other friends who were rescued Namutebi Aisha and Ndagire Mariam, this Egyptian man drove us up to a Kampala suburb, to a building where our ID’s were confiscated, he promised to secure for us, free Passports, travel permit, Interpol letters, Yellow Fever (ICV) cards requirement that will guarantee our travel to Arab countries like Oman, Saudi Arabia and Iraq for jobs, ” says Kasuubo Olivia from Iganga.
She however notes that the Egyptian gave them forms to fill on condition that they don’t disclose the information of where they were going to their parents and were promised to get their passports in one week.
The company that has a wider trafficking network both in Kenya and in the country is not registered and has no license from the Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social Development that authorizes them to operate in the country, yet they have been trafficking many girls guising as labor exporters.
Atta Ahmed Rezk
Atta Ahmed Rezk who is arrested is being investigated for operating illegally by targeting and recruiting desperate Ugandan girl’s Country wide. Security operatives also found in their office a pile of suspected forged Interpol letters, Yellow Fever (ICV) cards from Uganda and Kenya and fake National IDs.
The growing concerns such illegal companies’ reported, people being trafficked abroad as domestic workers especially in the Middle East, they end up being conscripted into sexual slavery, tortured, dehumanized and worst of all, for the purpose of body organ harvesting and other immoral activities.
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