hehehehe..The United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) has
said that about eighty per cent of Nigerian women who arrived Italy by
boat in the first half of 2016 were trafficked for prostitution.
“What we have seen this year is a crisis; it is absolutely
unprecedented and is the most significant increase in the number of
Nigerian women arriving in Italy for 10 years,” UK Guardian quoted
Simona Moscarelli, an anti-trafficking expert at the IOM.
She said majority of the women were being deliberately brought in for
sexual exploitation purposes as criminal gangs and trafficking networks
engaging in the sexual exploitation of younger Nigerian girls had
expanded.
In 2014, about 1,500 Nigerian women arrived by sea. In 2015 this
figure had increased to 5,633. Moscarelli warned that the current policy
of placing Nigerian women in reception centres along with thousands of
other migrants was playing to the traffickers’ advantage, with women
regularly going missing.
Most Nigerian women who arrived in Italy are already victims of
trafficking, many have been subjected to serious sexual exploitation in
Libya, she said.
“They are really treated like slaves. They arrive Italy with debts of
about £40,000 for their journey from Nigeria, which they are expected
to pay back.
“Nigerian trafficking gangs use a toxic mix of false promises of
legitimate employment and traditional ‘juju’ ceremonies to recruit and
gain psychological control over their victims,” the official added.
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