Nigeria Accounts For 60% Of Europe’s Sex Workers – NAPTIP
About 60-80 percent of Europe’s
commercial sex workers are Nigerians, even as teenagers between the ages of 15
and 17 are been trafficked in the country, according to the National Agency for
the Prohibition of Traffick in Persons and other Related Matters (NAPTIP) has
said.
The agency also said about eight
million Nigerian children are engaged in exploitative child labour, just as it
expressed concerned that Edo State have been identified as a source State for
the recruitment of young females for sexual exploitation.
The Executive Secretary of NAPTIP,
Mrs. Beatrice Jedy-Agba made the alarming revelation at a stakeholders
programme titled: ‘The Community Dialogue on Human Trafficking’ in Benin City
on Monday.
Represented by the agency’s Director
of Public Enlightenment, Mrs. Lado Ayegbusi, Jedy-Agba the meeting was convened
to dialogue, recognize and fashion out ways to tackle the menace.
Besides, she explained that The
Community dialogue/ sensitization was a deliberate strategy to sensitize,
educate and inform participant about children and women.
Her words: “Notable and common
trafficking routes are identified as Mali, Morocco, and by boat to Spain or
West coast to Libya or Saudi Arabia,”.
Source: Blueprint