According to the workers, they were denied access outside the premises of the factory due to the fear of importing COVID-19 into the factory.
The police in Kano have rescued over 600 labourers who were forced to spend three months in a factory called ‘popular farm rice’, in Challawa industrial area.that they were threatened with their jobs if they opted to go home to see their families.
One of the freed workers told journalists that he has been in the factory since March 23rd without setting his foot outside. According to another employee, though he was not forced to stay, he was threatened with dismissal if he decided to go outside the factory.
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