Some members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Lagos, yesterday, took to the streets to sensitise residents and markets within Oshodi/Isolo Local Council on the dangers of child/human trafficking.
President of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) Community Development Service (CDS) for Oshodi/Isolo council, Olawale Omotosho, who led the corps members to the market, major roads and streets campaign in the council, noted that human trafficking is a societal malaise capable of destroying the society.
He urged parents to carefully look after their children, and protect them from falling victims of human trafficking.
Another speaker, Gbemisola Akinyimika, who addressed traders in Yoruba language, lamented increased cases of human trafficking in the country, and blamed it on lack of proper parental care.
“Our vulnerable children, especially girls, fall victims of rape and trafficking abroad. Most of them are brainwashed and enticed by their evil sponsors with better job opportunities, simply because they are not privileged to have such here in Nigeria.
“But getting there, they face what is rather bigger than their expectations. This must stop. The parents, government and society at large should play concerted roles in fighting human trafficking in Nigeria,” she said.
