HUMAN TRAFFICKING; MODERN DAY SLAVERY

Human trafficking is the forcing of individual or group of individual especially women and children into sexual or labour exploitation. It is both a human rights violation and it is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. It is important to note that the trafficking of person is not limited to cases in which victims are transported across the borders to provide force labour. Internal trafficking occurs domestically in every nation, as domestic servitude, unsafe agricultural labour, sweatshop labour, housemaids, etc. Human trafficking is the most abominable violation of a human right which has in existed in a variety of forms, for thousands of years. Perhaps not many crimes are ghastly as trading in human misery.

Under the United Nation Convention against transnational organized crime, “Human trafficking involves the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons by means of a threat  or use of force or other forms of coercion , audition, fraud, deception, giving or receiving payments or benefits without the consent of a person for the purpose of exploitation. Human traffickers use the following means to trap their victims; false Job promises with the lucrative working condition and a fat salary, a scholarship to school abroad, fraudulent marriages, employment opportunities abroad etc.  

The activities of these traffickers have become a reoccurring decimal and have painted the country in a bad light before the international communities. Those. who have been arrested for human trafficking have given different reasons why they went into the business, such reasons include poverty, unemployment, ignorance, bad company etc. 

Despite how genuine their reason may be human traffickers' must be adequately punished to discourage others, the police and immigration department must be well equipped to tackle human trafficking. The citizens must be educated, Therefore; the federal, state and local government, as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs), should mount an intensive media campaign to expose the effect of human trafficking and the need for people to live within their reach.