Nigerian teenagers in prostitution in West African city capitals, says Human rights watch
Human Rights Watch
Many Nigerian women and and teenagers are currently engaged in prostitution in many neighbouring African countries.
The women are tricked into the West African Coastal cities by men and women alike who know about those cities.
The idea sold to them is that in the face of hopelessness, they are tricked into believing that there are better opportunities and resources for better livelihood in those cities.
Many of those tricked into those false life are aged between 15 and 17 years old and in some cases younger and they floods the West African Coastal cities in dozen and only take their fate after realising they have no alternative means of returning back home. Many of the victims are being paid as little as $2 per visit, according to the reports.
The Human Right Watch deplored the human trafficking; claiming victims are forced to have sexual deals with men as young as 15 and 30 years old as their patrons and matrons make brisk businesses.
According to the Human Rights Group, ‘Human Rights Watch’, Nigerian women and girls are being used for brisk businesses in the neighbouring Ivory Coast where they are forced into prostitution and human degradation.
An HRW report released Friday August 27 says that dozens of Nigerian woman had been trafficked after being deceived with promises of a better life in other West African countries.
The international human rights organization says victims were between the ages of 15 and 17 or younger when taken to Ivory Coast.
The report says victims are forced to have sex with 15 to 30 men a night at 1,000 CFA francs ($2) per visit.
The case of human trafficking out of Nigeria has concerned the government which actually passed anti-trafficking laws that focus on human smuggling to other West African countries, Europe and the United States but not Ivory Coast.
While Ivory Coast has been left out of the banned cities remains a matter to clarify by the government.
“This is another landmark disgrace and failure by the Nigerian government as they systematically destroy the future of the country”, a human right activist, Nathaniel Oyinloye angrily reacted when asked to comment on the nation’s upgraded human tragedy and disgrace.
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Mr Oyinloye, who is the Coordinator of the United Kingdom based Nigerian Education and Employment Development regretted:“A country as influential as Nigeria today is an international laughing stock with the indignity brought to the people despite being one of the leading oil producing countries in the world”.adding that the world should intervene into the situation of Nigerian less privileged by mandatory laws of care for the nation’s voters who had suffered neglect and who continue to be raped economically by those who continue to create mini world around themselves at the expense of the nations public and future.
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