Binay wants all OFW repatriates interviewed
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 00:00
VICE President Jejomar Binay has mandated that all repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) regardless of origin will now be interviewed upon arrival in the country. Binay, the Presidential Adviser on OFW Concerns and concurrent Chairman Emeritus of the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT), ordered the mandatory interviews after the IACAT's discovery of an alleged minor worker who arrived from Syria. "Our OVP (Office of the Vice President) staff noticed that a female worker looked suspiciously very much younger than her declared age. The passport she presented said she was in her 30s, but when she was interviewed, she admitted that the passport she was using wasn't hers," Binay said, in a statement.
The IACAT will conduct regular interviews of repatriates, as it tries to build its own database of Filipinos who were repatriated and off-loaded. Binay said this would allow them to identify recruitment agencies, government officials and personnel who are possibly involved in human trafficking. PNA
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