Middle East Consultants Limited  sends 100 Ugandans to Middle East

Middle East Consultants Limited Uganda has today flagged off 100 youths to go and work in the Middle East.

The 100 youths seen off today at the company’s office on Tankhill Road are going to work as security guards, maids, cleaners, drivers in Jordan, Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

The director Interpol Uganda police Dr Fred Yiga who was the chief guess commended management of Middle East Consultants Ltd, Uganda’s largest labour recruiting and exporting company for being diligent while carrying out their labour exporting activities and maintaining a clean record.

“Make use of this opportunity and make money for the benefit of your families. Avoid involving yourself in criminal activities and do what took you there. Be humble, be disciplined, do your work slowly by slowly. You are the future of tomorrow’s Uganda. Go represent Uganda perfectly,” Yiga told the youth.

The Interpol director noted that as police chief in charge of policing Ugandans who work abroad, he has never received any bad report from any Ugandan recruited abroad against Middle East Consultants.

“I want to commend you for being diligent and maintaining a clean record, I have not seen or received any complainants from the people you take abroad that they got problems.”

He added that “The good thing with you is that your people go in company branded T-shirts which means you use the airport and it is easy to identify you even abroad not like other briefcase companies who use panya-panya to sneak people out ending up suffering there.”

Gordon Mugyenyi the Middle East Consultants Managing Director said as a way for instilling sense of savings in the people they recruit, they have started them a Sacco as a saving scheme. “I visit them regularly and advise them in terms of saving,” he said.

He also noted that the company takes the lives and rights of Ugandans the company takes abroad as the first priority.

Mugyenyi explained that they keep in touch with the employers and the workers association in the Middle East to ensure that the people taken by Middle East Consultants are safe.”

“At every end of 4 months, Middle East Consultants sends its representative to countries where our people are working from for fact finding to ensure that they are well and safe at their places of work”.