HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN NIGERIA AND ITS EFFECTS ON NATIONAL IMAGE: A MORAL APPRAISAL

Chia, Bonaventure Aondover Aondover

Abstract


Human trafficking is regarded as modern slavery. It ‘involves deceiving or
coercing someone to move either within a country or abroad through legal or
illegal channels for the purpose of exploiting him or her’. The phenomenon in
recent time has generated a lot of attention among local and international
community. The menace has become a lucrative criminal business and Nigeria
has acquired a reputation for being one of the leading African countries in human
trafficking with cross-border and internal trafficking as a country of origin,
transit and of victims. The paper attempts to articulate the effects of the illicit
business on Nigeria national image. The major reasons for the persistence of the
ugly phenomenon of human trafficking in Nigeria include pervasive poverty,
unemployment, greed etc for the purpose of forced labour, domestic servitude,
sexual exploitation, and rituals. The paper also review the legislations put in
place the Nigeria government to curb menace. The paper recommends that
fighting human trafficking in Nigeria is all encompassing because it requires a
need for synergy of efforts to create public awareness of the crime, address the
poverty situation in the country, create employment for the youths, reinforce
relevant national laws, organize counseling, rehabilitation and reintegration
programme for the victims

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