The OWWA (Overseas Workers Welfare Administration) will collect P143 million on Tuesday from recruitments agencies for the expanses for the deportation of OFW (Overseas Filipino workers) workers from strife-torn countries.

OWWA Administrator, Carmelita Dimzon, asserted that recruitment agencies have refused from their agreements and they will soon inform firms about their debts. She said that they still have to draft a notice to recruitment agencies.

"The repatriation of the worker and the transport of his personal belongings shall be the primary responsibility of the agency which recruited or deployed the worker overseas", Section 15 of Republic Act 8042 or the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995 says.

Phillippine Association of Exporters Inc. (PASEI) President, Victor Fernandez, said that they should not carry all the expanses of deported OFWs. But still they are doing this because this is what law states, though it is not correct.

Fernandez said that there should be a limitation on until they will be accountable for the repatriation for the workers they sent abroad.

He said that if government cannot afford to repatriate a certain number of OFWs, then even they cannot handle it.