Adams Oshiomhole, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior, said during a budget defence session at the National Assembly Joint Committees on Interior that Nigerian construction businesses were using foreign convicts as labourers.
According to Oshiomhole, these inmates are being paid the minimum salary in their home nations while they are incarcerated in the nation.
Speaking to Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the minister of interior, Oshiomhole underlined the need for tighter control over quotas granted to foreigners. He voiced worry about the purported exploitation of non-Nigerian labourers who were forced to live in appalling conditions—some of them even within containers.
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Oshiomhole issued a warning, stating that he would not hold back in revealing the identities of the participating corporations if pushed.
Oshiomhole stated, “Your ministry needs to regulate the issuance of the quotas very well as I have it on good authority that prisoners from foreign lands are working in Nigeria as construction workers.
“Many non-Nigerians are in the country, some of them live inside containers. They were being paid according to their country’s minimum wage by the construction industry that brought them.
“I don’t want to mention the companies’ names, but if I’m provoked, I’ll mention them,” he disclosed.
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