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The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, who succeeded Adams Oshiomhole.[Photo credit: YouTube]

The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, who succeeded Adams Oshiomhole.[Photo credit: YouTube]

Edo mulls options to curb human trafficking

byPremium Times
November 22, 2017
2 min read

The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday said that the state has commenced building structures to receive and re-integrate victims of human trafficking and illegal migration who are indigenes of the state.

Speaking at the International Conference on Women Empowerment and the Fight Against Trafficking in Persons: Partnership Between Nigeria and Italy, organised by the President of Italian Chamber of Deputies, Laura Boldrini, in Rome, Italy, the governor said the state government needs support to sustain its efforts and ensure that youth do not have reasons to embark on treacherous journeys.

Edo State is typically believed to be one of the choice Nigerian locations where human traffickers usually target young girls to feed prostitution rings abroad.

According to a press statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES by the governor’s media office, it recalled that the state government recently received three batches of over 200 returnees from Libya, who were subsequently enrolled in capacity development programmes and placed on a stipend for three months.

The statement said the state government had set up a task-force to oversee the process of rehabilitating and assimilating returnees and has sent a bill to the Edo State House of Assembly, for the enactment of a law to strengthen the fight against human trafficking in the state.

Mr. Obaseki was quoted as saying that the state requires huge funds to sustain the rehabilitation of the returnees.

“We are spending a lot to reintegrate these young people into the society and we anticipate that the expenses would be more in the nearest future. We solicit for support from the European Union, the Italian government as well as other countries affected by this menace to be able to sustain the structures we have set up in the state.

“All parties affected by the menace of human trafficking, both the countries of origin and the destination countries stand to benefit from the system we have set up in Edo State to engage these youths, which would give them no reason to contemplate migrating illegally. So, we want to strengthen these structures in Edo State to make staying back and working gainfully the preferred choice”, he said.

On indigenes who are victims of human trafficking and are willing to return to the state, the governor was also quoted as saying that, “We acknowledge the fact that they are victims, and in many instances, they are entangled in human trafficking due to no fault of theirs. We are extending an open hand to them, and assuring them of support when they return.”

The BBC recently reported how Italian prosecutors had commenced investigations into the deaths of 26 Nigerian women, reportedly trafficked, whose bodies were recovered at sea.

The victims, who are mostly teenagers, aged 14-18, were initially believed to have been sexually abused and murdered as they attempted to cross the Mediterranean.

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Following several rescues, their bodies were discovered in a Spanish warship, Cantabria, carrying 375 migrants, 23 of whom women had been on a rubber boat with 64 other people. Most of the 375 survivors brought to Salerno were sub-Saharan Africans from Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, The Gambia and Sudan.

The girls, who were later declared after autopsy to have died via asphyxiation, have since been buried by the Italian authorities while the Nigerian government tries to put its acts together to commence investigations into what really happened.

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