THIS IS THE ACTION of the Nigerian Goverment. This type of child labor is rampant throughout 'The Third World.' One can say the Nigerian government doesn't try. Granted more of an effort might be in order but certainly they know the problem exists; it is a matter of time before all slaver owners and traders will find themselves being ridiculed and prosecuted by the Nigerian goverment.
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Dozens of filthy and exhausted children, some as young as 12 months, cowered in a Nigerian police station today after being discovered packed into a fishmonger’s truck as they were to be sold into slavery
Police arrested a woman accompanying the 52 children in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, after police discovered them in a container on a truck that normally transports fish to market, said police spokesman Ademola Adebayo.
The youngsters sat on wooden benches in a concrete room at an inner city police station in Lagos today. Several had no clothes, while others wrapped themselves in soiled lengths of cloth. Officials said they were working to reunite the children with family members.
The arrested woman, Fatima Baba, told police she had brought the children from Makwa town in northern Nigeria’s Niger state to Lagos to hire them out as domestic servants, said Adebayo.
“According to her, she would get a fee for hiring out the children,” he said, adding that police were investigating Baba’s claim that the children’s families had consented to the arrangement, and would be paid when the children returned after a year’s work.
Five of the children were aged one to five. The oldest were 14. A police spokesman in the capital Abuja said authorities were looking into whether there were plans to sell some into slavery.
Twelve adults who shared the container with the children are also being detained, said Adebayo.
Child trafficking is an Africa-wide problem, with an estimated 200,000 children shipped across West and Central Africa’s borders each year, some ending up in brutally difficult jobs.
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