Nigeria: The Other Side of Human Trafficking

21 December 2004

For the traffickers, agents and other trafficked victims who were lucky and became independent of their madams, human trafficking is a lucrative business. But for the women and children who in most cases fall victims of being trafficked, human trafficking is another form of modern slavery leaving in bondage.

For many years now Nigeria has been centred transit and destination coun-try on human trafficking. The two forms of human traffic-king that is the internal traff-icking; when women take their fellow human being from people to another within the country for slavery and related practices, and the other form that is external trafficking; is when human beings are being moved beyond the shores of their countries to other countries for sexual/economic exploitation, cheap labour, forced marriage and etc have became a menace to the country.

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