The Federal Government says it plans to check modern day slavery through awareness creation activities on the effects of illegal immigration, child labour
Mrs Memunat Idu-Lah, Director, International Cultural Relations, Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Sunday.NAN reports that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation , designated August 23 each year as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, and Nigeria is preparing to join other member countries to commemorate the day.
“We have learnt in history about how people are enslaved; now we can see how people are being trafficked. “And it means we are not yet out of slavery, as of those of us who went to school and study history, we learnt of Trans-Atlantic slave trade.According to her, this is because generations to come will sit down and read what we did during our own time.
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