The Nigerian Senate has commenced a debate that seeks to stop banks from turning young female graduates to harlots in the name of marketing for deposits.
The lawmakers also seek to extend the same restriction to all industries including the telecommunications, oil and gas, mining and insurance from employing graduates as casual workers and paying them a pittance.
The Prohibition of Casualisation Bill 2020 is sponsored by Senator Ayo Akinyelure who said that the Nigerian labour market has become a subject of great concern.
He had grave concern for female bank marketers who have become sex slaves in a desperate attempt to keep their jobs and meet impossible targets.
According to Akinyelure, “statistics from the Nigeria Labour Congress shows that many workers in the telecommunications, oil and gas sectors are engaged as casual labourers by employers of labour.
“Other sectors with thousands of casual labourers include mining, steel, banking and insurance
“In the banking and insurance industry for instance, many young graduates particularly females are employed as marketers and given unrealistic customer deposit targets running into millions.
“They are hired and fired at will when such unrealistic targets are not met.
“The female among them who are desperate in keeping their jobs turn to harlotry and sex slavery.
The Senator added that “they move from one office to the other looking for invisible customers who have large funds to enable them meet their targets.
“It is high time this evil and devilish act is stopped.”
On her part, Senator Biodun Olujimi added that, “Our girls have been turned to what we cannot imagine.
“Most of them have been asked to look for funds and when they come to us, I always tell them, I do not even have funds to eat, how can I have funds to keep with you in the bank ?
“They will never be promoted if they don’t bring in such funds, and this is a banking industry that is privately owned, yes, but has made so much profit, and from that profit they could at least take the few they can manage properly, rather than take a lot that they be giving pittance,” Olujimi lamented.
The bill has scaled second reading and therefore referred to the committee on Employment, Labour and Productivity.
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