The Senior
Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Diaspora Affairs, Abike
Dabiri-Erewa, has disclosed that ailing President, Buhari has mandated his team
on diaspora affairs to ensure that all Nigerian girls trafficked for sex
overseas are brought back to the country.
She stated
this while commenting on the issue of human trafficking during a programme on
AIT.
Dabiri-Erewa
said that no fewer than 41 girls ranging between 16 – 28 years have voluntarily
returned to Nigeria from Mali as a result of collaboration between the Nigerian
Embassy and the Malian authorities anchored on mutual agreement.
She called
for the education of children against embarking on trips to places they are not
familiar with; stressing that girls who are trafficked for sex believed that
they were going overseas to engage in white-collar jobs.
She said:
“Now on the issue of human trafficking, 41 girls have voluntarily returned to
Nigeria from Mali.
“President
Buhari has charged us to bring back all these girls trafficked for sex.
“The
Nigerian Embassy in Bamako leveraged on the NAF Charlie-130 Hercules aircraft
to airlift these girls that were victims of human trafficking.
“The
successful repatriation of the girls was as a result of collaboration between
the Nigerian Embassy and the Malian authorities anchored on mutual agreement.
“We need to
educate our children especially the ladies not to go to where they don’t know.”
Source: Daily
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