The issue of unfavorable working environment in some foreign owned factories, especially the Chinese and Indians in Nigeria calls for urgent attention, as there is little or no compliance to standard health and safety measure as expected of them.
There abound reports of dehumanizing working conditions by workers (mostly Nigerians) who under the pressure of the hard economic condition facing the country, have to put up with unimaginable conditions in the various factories across the country, just to survive.
Some of these manual workers are made to operate heavy duty production machines without any form of protections, work longer hours with meager remunerations, there abound reports that some have been, and are being abused....to mention a few.
It's high time this issue is taken more seriously, investigated and perpetrators fished out and brought to book.
Since it is obvious the Nigerian government can not provide jobs on a yearly basis for the growing population, and the teeming number of graduates being pushed into the labor market; the government can peharps come in, by collaborating with individuals and organizations to create more SMEs for school leavers, and at the grass root levels to check rural - urban migration.
More-so, regular inspections ought to be carried out in these factories scattered all over the nation, to ensure that they adhere to standard health and safety measures.
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