RED HOT CHILI: Sex for
flight scandal
News items: Akusado sa ‘sex-for-flight scam’ sa Saudi isasalang na sa probe – DOLE spokesma Wife of embattled PHL labor attache in sex abuse scandal defends husband DOLE: Labor exec in sex abuse raps to face probers after arriving from Saudi PHL to send female welfare officers to MidEast amid sex abuse scandal
The involvement of staff and
officials in the Philippine’s foreign posts, surely, has became the hottest
topic among the Filipino migrant workers around the world today. It stands up
like a sore thumb, both for the government agencies involved and for the
migrant workers themselves. This development pierced the heart of the OFWs
around the world for now, they face the truth: they have nowhere to go when in
trouble in foreign lands. The only haven they know is proving more an enemy
than a friend.
It is unfolding, the trouble is
centered more on DOLE officials. Resource centers are managed by the POLO. The
officials involved are POLO officials. The phrase “POEA is the biggest
recruiter” and “the Philippine government is the biggest human trafficker”
seems to be not just a pun after all. It is becoming a reality.
To remedy the situation, DOLE has
hurriedly announced it will prosecute the involved officials. But it has a
catch: if they could find complainants. Two
days ago, Migrante International, a Filipino migrant migrants’ right watchdog,
has communicated to DOLE the incident that the accused officials from Riyadh is
cohersing the female OFW wards in the shelter of the PE Riyadh to sign an
affidavit refuting the accusations. And, sure enough, the news of OFWs supporting
the accused official came out the next day! The problem is that the would be
complainants are still wards of the POLO overseas and are scared to go forward
in the open. In this case, the probes may turn out to be just a show. No
justice could ber reached.
The problem of the slow
repatriation of distressed OFWs many of whom are inside the POLO shelters is
another thorn that throbs. Many of the would be accusers are among them, if the
snail phased process of repatriarion continues, there would be no accusers
present in the Philippines. The accusers will be buried in the shelters. What’s
more, this slow process of repatriation has made the OFWs in distress very ripe
for the abuses of POLO officials as proven by the sex scandals. The officials were able to scare the women
OFWs into prostituting them with these officials as pimps. The only solution
here is to repatriate all distressed OFWs in wholesale numbers, one thing that
the embassy officials said that they can not do.
And sending female officials to
replace the suspect males may not be too effective. IT IS NOT THE SEX OF THE
OFFICIALS that can guarantee the efficacy of their service, it is their proffessionalism
and dedication to service determines their worth.
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