NIGERIAN GIRLS ARE SUBJECTED TO FORCEFUL LIFE SEX PARTNERS IN FOREIGNLANDS, SAYS BRITISH DIPLOMAT

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, while speaking said the Senate was ‘losing sleep’ over irregular migration and human trafficking in the country, but that as representatives of the people, ”they are determined to tackle the problem.”

 “Nigeria currently ranks 23 on the Global Slavery Index of 167 countries with the highest number of slaves. Human trafficking is third in the ignoble hierarchy of the commonly occurring crimes in Nigeria, according to UNESCO”, he said

 “Nigeria accounts for the world’s highest number of irregular migrants going through the Agadez Route. Our citizens represent the fifth largest number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea into Europe. The number of Nigerian females arriving in Italy alone increased 600-fold in just three years. 10,000 Nigerians are estimated to have lost their lives on the perilous journey in five months of last year alone.

‘We have seen the bleak images of coffins of 26 Nigerian girls, who were laid to rest in Italy last November. This is what brings us today to ancient Benin. This roundtable is designed to help answer some of the niggling questions. To identify root causes and the various dimensions of the problem,   Saraki added

Meanwhile, one of the victims who spoke at the event, narrated her ordeal in the foreign land, and how she work round the clock, to satisfy sexual urge and need of number of men, as well as he miraculously escaped

“Two days after I arrived Moscow, we started working. We would work every single day. It did not matter if we were having our period (menstruation) or not. We would have about six to seven clients per day’.

“Prostitution was illegal in Russia and sometimes they would arrest us for two to three days. When I was barely five days, I was on the road and they called my ‘Madam’. They beat me up, raped me and urinated on me.I escaped when they slept off in the next morning. We paid our Madam for food, drugs, condoms and house rent,” she said.