Despite kidnap ordeal, OFW asks gov’t to lift deployment ban to Nigeria
The Filipino electrical supervisor who was released last Wednesday by his kidnappers in
Albert Bacani Sr. made the appeal in the weekly dzMM radio program “Para Sa Iyo Bayan” of Vice President Noli de Castro after he arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
Bacani, chief electrician of an Italian petrochemical company in
Since January, at least nine cases of kidnapping of foreign workers in
The Department of Foreign Affairs said the partial ban on OFWs in
Bacani said that despite his ordeal, he will return to
He said
He added that the eight armed men who kidnapped him are not part of an organized group that is responsible for the other abductions of foreign workers in
Bacani had undergone medical check-up and psychological evaluation after he and his Colombian co-worker were released by the abductors to the State Security Services of Nigeria on a bridge in
Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo ordered the Philippine Embassy in
The government expressed gratitude to the Nigerian government and SAIPEM for their efforts to secure the release of Bacani.
Sen. Manuel Roxas II warned jobseekers to avoid accepting employment offers to
He said the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration had suspended the processing of job contracts for
The senator also underscored the need for workers’ vigilance against bogus online recruitment scams proliferating in the Internet. – With Aurea Calica
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