According to Daily Sun, the re-introduction of foreigners to man some critical aspects of telecommunications companies operations in Nigeria, stakeholders have raised fears that over 500,000 Nigerians may soon be out of jobs.
This is coming as telecommunications companies appear to have jettisoned the Nigerian Local Content policy and are replacing it with expartriates, which is a clear indication that Nigerians will soon be enslaved in their own land.
Daily Sun checks revealed that many more Nigerians would be relieved of their livelihood as indians and Lebanese are taking over the jobs.
According to a stakeholder, Mumini Sambo, the issue of local content is becoming dangerous as the locals are seriously losing out to the foreigners, especially the Indians and Lebanese.
“The trend in recent times shows that Nigerians are now being enslaved in their land. The so-called multi-national companies are taking advantage of the massive corruption in the country to take away monies supposed to be used in developing the country to their countries and leaving very little for Nigerians.”
An industry watcher, Amaka Ogbonnaya, explained that Nigerian jobs must be for Nigerians as they do in South Africa.
“Every government should be sensitive to the well-being of its citizenry. It is high time the government beamed its searchlight on the telecoms companies in the country.
“Most of these companies are easing Nigerian companies out to pave way for the foreigners all in the name of cheap labour. A co-location company owned by Nigerians is losing out to those owned by foreigners in a bid to transfer money to their countries at the expense of the country’s economy.”
Recently, one of the GSM operators dropped a Nigerian outsource company to embrace foreign ones and about 4,000 graduates lost their jobs.
Sambo disclosed that indigenous companies are giving their best in terms of products and services, just that they saw loop-holes in the local content policy and being driven by high profit margin.
He appealed to the Federal Government to critically beam its searchlight on the issue and defend its citizens. (Daily Sun).
This is alarming. We are ptecssan are ready to lead the protest for freedom from slavery