85% Of Nigerian Prostitutes In Europe From Edo, Group Claims

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From Ameachi Prosper (The New Diplomat’s Delta Correspondent)

85 percent of prostitutes from Nigeria in Europe are from Edo State, the Executive Director of CLEEN Foundation, Mr. Benson Olugbuo, has claimed.

Speaking at a town hall meeting in Benin, titled “Community Awareness: Panacea to Ending Trafficking of Women and Girls,” Olugbuo pointed out that the International Organization for Migration (IOM), had put the figure at over 60 percent in 2018.85% Of Nigerian Prostitutes In Europe From Edo, Group Claims

According to him, three LGAs of Orhionmwon, Oredo and Ikpoba-Okha constitute some of the main recruiting centres for traffickers, and the main areas of departure of irregular migrants seeking to reach Europe.

Olugbuo stressed that Nigeria had in the last two years, evacuated thousands of its citizens from Libya and Lebanon after they have suffered several forms of abuses, including enslavement.

“The crime of trafficking in persons is clandestine and complex, it is a modern day slavery and with negative long-term effects on the victims and the society at large, particularly its disproportionate effect on women and girls.”

Olugbuo, however, appealed to the traditional institutions, religious bodies and the state government to join its quest to end the scourge of human trafficking in the state.

'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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