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Human traffickers use of hotels as transit camps slammed

IRKED by misuse of small scale hotels as breeding grounds for child prostitution and transit camps for human trafficking, Hotel and Personal Services Senior Staff Association (HAPSSSA), has called on Federal Government to come out with stiffer penalties for culprits.

The General-Secretary of the union, Dele Dada, who made this call in an interview with the National Daily last week, expressed the sad phenomenon of child prostitution in mostly small scale hotels.

Dada who spoke on some topical issues concerning the sector appealed to workers in the sector to be united and saying “some management are in the habit of using the loophole of lack of unity and agreement by the workers to exploit them.

He blamed the workers in one of the big hotels in Ikeja over the picketing that took place there sometime ago, saying because the management has successfully caused disunity among the workers, it was able to reject establishment of unionism in the hotel by using workers against themselves.

He prayed that the union should win in the case that is now in Industrial Arbitration Court to create room for cogent unionism in the hotel.

Similarly Dada lamented the modern slave trade practice, casualisation, contract staffing and outsourcing, that is posing major challenges to the union because most hotels have continued to use contract staff, outsourcing and casual workers to run their business in order to deny the workers the full benefits accrued to the workers.
“When we urged all hotels to allow their workers to be unionised, some of them devised means to keep off unionism in their establishment to enable them use the workers without any resistance from the workers.

He accused one five star hotels which has frustrated tangible and one authentic union in place through use of workers against themselves. Since the management has used the workers to achieve its plan of destroying unionism in the hotel, workers have now realised their errors and have been living in perpetual fear since.

Since that crisis about 20 workers have been frustrated out of the place because of the modern slave operations.
The issue of information technology does arise in hotel business because computers cannot do the hotel jobs.

The organised social service organised labour spokesman, disclosed that good management of hotels and tourisms would generate foreign exchange for the country. Therefore, he urged Federal Government to create enabling environment, like good roads, electricity and setting up of specialised banks to help interested investors, to enable investors to come into the sector.

For now, we are yet to get international standard five star hotels in Nigeria, a hotel that can accommodate 10,000 bed spaces. If you have international event, there is no single hotel that can boastfully accommodate 10,000 beds at a time, so government should encourage more investors to come into the sector.

Dada appealed to the new management of Federal Palace Hotel to remember the agreement with the union to retain the 400 workers it inherited and none of them should be victimised for role they played in the struggle that took place in the some time ago.