We now cook, sweep and wash our ogas’ cloths’ – Female NIS personnel in Ekiti command raise alarm over abuse

By Tayo Elegbede

Some female personnel of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) in the Ekiti State Command have revealed how they have been turned into domestic workers at the residents of their bosses.

Naija News gathered that some of these personal have come out to complain about how they have been turned into domestic workers by top officials of the command.

According to them, they now cook, clean and wash for their bosses, when that are supposed to be on guard duties.

They claimed that the act has been in existence for long and even in the time of the last comptroller, it existed, but nothing was done about it.

One of the aggrieved female personnel told SaharaReporters that they have not equally been paid their allowances for the 2023 general elections.

She said “The election duty allowances, it was just a few people that were in all the states. Most of us female officials were asked to write our details down and it has been sent to the headquarters since but we have not heard anything, so definitely they aren’t ready to pay the rest.

”Secondly, there is this annoying thing happening here in Ekiti command, for some of us female officers working at the comptroller and other top officials’ homes.

“Guard duty implies securing the premises but for years now, the female officers’ duties have turned to house help work. We now cook, sweep and wash those ‘oga’ (bosses’) clothes.

“This rubbish has been going on for years now. It started when the last comptroller was here but the key officers at the command who were supposed to talk and change the system didn’t do anything about it probably because they also collect from the budget meant for housemaids and domestic workers.

“Ideally, there is a special allowance for cooks, cleaners and others that are meant to be employed by the command but they now prefer using female officers and the headquarters isn’t aware of this.”

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