FG Threatens To Sanction Expatriate Policy Violators

Federal Government has vowed to sanction any company that fails to comply with the law guiding the employment of qualified Nigerians to understudy expatriates.

Special Ministerial Task Force on Monitoring and Enforcement of Nigerian Expatriate Business Permit and Expatriate Quota Administration said this was necessary to ensure compliance with the policy.

The task force called on companies in the country to submit the Tax Identification Number, National Identification Numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses of Nigerians understudying expatriates in their firms.

The chairman of the task force, Bola Ilori, said in a statement on Sunday that all companies must submit the details of Nigerians understudying expatriates within their organisations to verify their sincerity or otherwise.

According to him, the unit came to this conclusion after the meeting of the task force with representatives of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Nigeria Labour Congress; Nigerian Bar Association; Nigerian Society of Engineers; other professional bodies, and officials of the Ministry of Interior.

He said any company found to be playing tricks to deny qualified Nigerians jobs would face heavy sanctions from the Federal Government.

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Ilori said, “Every company must submit the details of Nigerians understudying expatriates in their organisations. They must submit the Tax Identification Number, National Identity Number, phone number, and email address of each Nigerian understudying expatriates in their companies.

“We have discovered that some of the companies are not sincere, they just want to keep renewing the permits of their expatriates at the detriment of Nigerians. We want to know whether they are circumventing the policy or they adhere to it.”

He said the task force would do everything to ensure that Nigerians were no longer denied the opportunities to work in companies in the country by foreigners and their collaborators.