THE disclosure by the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Tolu Akande-Sadipe, that about 80,000 Nigerians are currently held as sex slaves, and in forced labour across...
THE disclosure by the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Tolu Akande-Sadipe, that about 80,000 Nigerians are currently held as sex slaves, and in forced labour across the world, is utterly depressing. It is a wake-up call to the government at all levels to do all within their powers to eradicate trafficking in persons in the country.
In June 2019, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons raised the alarm that about 20,000 girls, mainly from Edo and Delta states, were engaged in prostitution in Mali, being a major transit centre for the human trafficking gangs. The crime demands new legislation that would make sex trafficking a first-degree felony with a more severe penalty. The Trafficking in Persons Law Enforcement and Administration Act , criminalises sex trafficking and labour trafficking and prescribes a minimum penalty of two years’ imprisonment and a fine of N250,000 for both sex and labour trafficking. The minimum penalty for sex trafficking was raised to seven years’ imprisonment and a fine of N1 million if the case involved a child victim.
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