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The Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced a decline in the number of Ugandan girls seeking greener pastures abroad through labour export companies.

The Ministry Spokesperson, Mr Simon Mundeyi, attributed the reduction to Ugandan girls allegedly misusing social media to blackmail people in the countries where they work.

“On social media, Ugandan girls are posting videos depicting the sufferings they were allegedly being subjected to in the countries they had gone to work in, which threatened their marketability abroad by way of scaring their potential employers,” Mr Mundeyi said in an interview on September 24.

Mr Mundeyi added that the government came up with stringent measures to regulate labour companies exporting girls, including the introduction of additional costs during the process to eliminate some companies and only leave credible ones to do business.

He said: “Girls from Burundi and Ethiopia rate is $800 (about Shs2.9m), but due to additional expenses our country imposed on labour companies as a way of regulating them, it increased the Ugandan girls’ rate card to $1200 (about Shs4.4 million), so the client opts for cheaper labour outside Uganda.”

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