adsA child cannot be blamed for a soup cooked by the entire household.
That African proverb captures a growing contradiction in Nigeria’s personnel outsourcing industry.
Across corporate Nigeria, many outsourcing contracts now contain broad indemnity clauses requiring service providers to absorb almost every operational loss connected to deployed personnel. Fraud, negligence, customer claims, operational disruption, regulatory exposure, and reputational damage are increasingly pushed onto outsourcing firms under sweeping “hold harmless” provisions.adsads
At first glance, this appears prudent. Every business wants protection against risk. But beneath the legal language lies a deeper question: Do we truly want to build a strong personnel outsourcing sector in Nigeria?
This question matters because no industry can become strong when its commercial foundation is constantly weakened.
