NIGERIA AMBASSADOR CONDEMNED THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING ACTIVITIES IN BURKINA FASO

RAMATU AHMAD A NIGERIAN AMBASSADOR TO BURKINA FASO SAID ABOUT 10,000 NIGERIAN GIRLS ARE FORCED TO PROSTITUTION

In a statement by the Nigeria Ambassador to Burkina Faso, she said that about 10,000 Nigerian girls are forced to prostitute in Burkina Faso.

In a recent statement by the Ambassador, she disclose that victims of the sex trade are young girls kept in un conducive conditions, in Ouagadougou and mining camps across the West African country.

 

Ramatu Ahmed, who has been in Burkina Faso since August 2017, disclose that over 200 girls from Nigerian were repatriated this year.. She also said that many of the girls were promised jos in the country and Europe by the human traffickers, are not ready to return back home.

The embassy is very concern about the woman trafficking because currently, they are nothing less than 10,000 Nigerian girls who have been trafficked into Burkina Faso as sex workers.

She also added that most of the girl are school drop out and underage, and they roaming in Burkina faso working as sex workers.

The ambassador condemned the activities and promise that the embassy will continue to track the perpetrators to book in collaboration with the local authorities.

She said the embassy was partnering with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) office in Ouagadougou to assist in the voluntary repatriation of some of the victims of human trafficking.    

“Two hundred girls have been repatriated to Nigeria by the embassy, this is apart from the ones that run to the churches, some to other Civil society Organisations (CSOs) and the International Organisations on Migration (IOM).  The IOM is complaining to the embassy that most of its money meant for West Africa is used to repatriate Nigerian girls back home and they are complaining that with time, they would not be able to cope with the number.  

“So, if the embassy alone has repatriated 200 girls, you can imagine how many girls the IOM has repatriated and the reason they are complaining,” she said.  

Ahmed appealed to Nigerian parents and guardians to monitor their children and wards more closely and not to be swayed by promises of greener pastures abroad.

 “I am pleading with Nigerian parents that they should know what their children are doing. Most of the girls said that their parents don’t know that they are here and some will tell us that their parents know and some will say that they were sent by either their father, mother, uncle, she said.  

“This is a problem that emanates from the family. For the girls, I wish to tell them that anybody they see that comes to tell them that he is taking then to somewhere to either be employed as hairdressers or work in the shop, these are human traffickers.

Anybody that will tell them not to work in Nigeria, but to move outside is simply a human trafficker and they should be wary of such persons” she added.