Human trafficking

#10

Sunday

23/01/2022

Good morning readers, I hope you all slept well. I did too and I'm awake and kicking already. Today I'm writing on human trafficking because it is really something that has become so rampant in our society especially among women and children in Africa. These people are taken away on the basis of getting them a better life which they never seem to get for the rest of their life if they keep being there. It's a terrible one, we have had cases of trafficking even here in Nigeria and that's a very poor one coming from the "giant of Africa".

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Human trafficking...

This is a practice common in Africa where some set of people we call the traffickers, take children and women away either by force or by fake promises of a better life into slavery, hard labor or even prostitution for the ladies as the case may be. Some of them are even used to traffick hard drugs in return for stipends, these traffickers have no value for human life that they use their victims to transport illegal drugs across boarders and if these victims are caught, the traffickers flee and leave such people in a mess of jail for some years depending on the country. Some countries even handicap them as a punishment for the offense of drug trafficking.

Factors behind human trafficking

• False promises

These traffickers target the less privileged as their victims to be trafficked because these people are the easiest to deceive for a better well-being as they promise to help them to further their education, get a good job or even start a new life. These offers glow in the eyes of these people and in no time they fall into the trap even without thinking of what will become of them after accepting these offers.

• Illiteracy

Not necessarily people that didn't go to school, but people that a blinded by the initial benefits these traffickers bring to them. These people are capable of paying them off immediately they see them but a lot of people fail to think about the long term consequences of being trafficked and they ignorantly fall into their deceit.

• Weak law enforcement

This comes down to our government too for not properly enforcing these laws so as to avoid trafficking. The enforcement agencies are even sometimes paid off to allow these traffickers have their way which is also corruption and these things would never allow a country move forward.

The consequences of human trafficking are really numerous among which we have shame, rejection, transmission of STDs and so on. We really need to fight against this cankerworm eating our country up, part of what we can do is:

• Proper seminars to allow parents know how deceitful these traffickers can come should be organized.

• The government should make sure to provide enough jobs so that people won't have to travel before they can earn a living.

• Campaigns and rallies against trafficking should be organized, not only for political reasons like we have it presently. A lot of people should be able to learn when campaigns are done against human trafficking from time to time.

Thanks for reading ❤️