Nigerian boys are trafficked to Ghana, Liberia others for Internet fraud – NAPTIP

Fourteen-year-old Nigerian boys are now being trafficked to Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and forced into internet fraud, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) said yesterday. THE NATION reports.Information Guide Nigeria

Prof. Fatima Waziri-Azi, NAPTIP Director General said traffickers lock them in a room, seize their passports and properties, and give them a crash course on internet fraud otherwise known as Yahoo and they are given daily targets to meet.JAMB Result

She said those unable to meet their daily targets are beaten or starved by traffickers who initially lured them with promises of good jobs and a better life in those countries.

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Prof Waziri-Azi said the agency last year rescued 21 boys from Ghana who were forced into fraud and another 19-year-old girl from an Abuja private university who was promised a modeling gig but forced into prostitution in Ghana.JAMB Portal

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The DG disclosed this at the launch of the Anti-Human Trafficking Vanguard at the Army Command School, Lungi Barracks, Asokoro, Abuja.

She said: “The purpose of the Vanguard is to establish a platform where young people can educate and sensitize themselves and others on issues of human trafficking and Violence against persons.NYSC Portal

“Last year we rescued a 19-year-old girl that was in a private university here in Abuja. She met somebody on Instagram who told her that she was beautiful and he had a modeling job for her. She abandoned her studies and her parents were looking for her for three months, we ended up locating her in Ghana, where she was taken for prostitution. After the father reported to us, we collaborated with our counterparts in Ghana to rescue her.