The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons claims it has succeeded at going after a prostitution ring that takes Nigerian women to Mali for sex slavery. The agency said it successfully got about 400 such sex workers back to Nigeria.
Beatrice Jedy-Agba, the head of NAPTIP told newsmen that an investigation which started last September revealed that Nigerian sex slaves are sent to Mali, having been sold for two million naira each.
Jedy-Agba explained that thousands of Nigerian girls aged between thirteen and seventeen years, having been deceived, are trafficked and made to populate brothels in Bamako and other suburban settlements in Mali. She said that some of them were repatriated from Algeria and other North African countries.
Jedy-Agba said that two of the returnees as babies at 6 months old and another one year old.
She also said that the sex slaves are being reintegrated and rehabilitated after they arrived Nigeria on Saturday. She said the traffickers, one of whom is a male, would be charged.