VIDEO: 10 TEENAGE NIGERIAN GIRLS TRAFFICKED TO GHANA FOR PROSTITUTION

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Authorities in Nigeria have recovered ten or more young girls who were trafficked to Ghana, a neighboring country, to become prostitutes. The girls were between the ages of fifteen and sixteen.

In a video uploaded on her verified X, formerly Twitter, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, affirmed this.

It was learned that NIDO, an arm of the NiDCOM and the umbrella organization for all Nigerians residing in Ghana, saved the girls following a report.

At least three of the victims are siblings from the same parents. According to one of them, the suspect traded them for sex without paying them. She added that they could not contact their parents because the suspect seized their phones.

The suspect, a yet-to-be-identified Nigerian man, has been arrested, having molested and trafficked the victims, according to the Chairman of NIDO, Chief Callistus, who was in the now-viral video.

Reports gathered that some of the girls were mainly from the Imo and Plateau states and were below the official Nigerian adult age.

Still speaking in the video, one of the unnamed girls pointed to the other, stating that it was her brother who brought them to Ghana for prostitution.

Still quizzing, they asked, “When they brought you here, what were you asked to do?”

One of the girls responded to the questions, saying, “They give us out to men, and they don’t give us money; they collect everything.”

Facing the camera now, the chief said, “See our children in diaspora, 15 years old, children that are supposed to be in school, these are the great future of Nigeria in diaspora, three children from same father and mother in Imo state.”

Reacting to the post on her personal X.com page, Mrs Dabiri-Erewa called on the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons to take decisive follow-up actions.

She wrote, “These are young girls trafficked to Ghana for prostitution. We thank Chief Callistus, Chairman, Nido Ghana, for ensuring the arrest of the evil perpetrator. I am sure @naptipnigeria will follow up; very, very heartbreaking.”

Speaking in the video attached to her post, the NIDO chairman said, “We just rescued all these from one single person’s house, innocent Nigerian children; they were brought here to do what they wouldn’t have wished to do.

“They are helpless; they beat them, molest them and send them out for prostitution; they will collect money from them.

“We just apprehended the perpetrator, a Nigerian guy; we are at the police station now.”

According to Section 13 of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015, laws of the Federation of Nigeria prohibit the act of trafficking in persons.

The law prescribed penalties of 10 years to life imprisonment for sex trafficking.

See video below: