Child labourers in Nigeria more than Togo’s entire population

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), on Wednesday, disclosed that about 8 million Nigerian children are child labourers.

Essentially, the number of child labourers in Nigeria is more than the population of French speaking Togolese Republic which has a population of approximately 7.5 million.

This was disclosed by the Acting Director- General of NAPTIP, Alhaji Abdulrazak Dangiri, at the opening of the Planning and Writing Workshop for the Infusion of Trafficking in Persons Issues into the Curricula of Primary and Secondary Schools, in Keffi.

He noted that such children are used as domestic servants, prostitutes, scavengers, car washers, bus conductors, drug peddlers and farmers.

“Trafficking in human beings, especially women and girls, is not new. It is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon involving multiple networks at the institutional and commercial levels with a huge market for cheap labour and commercial sex.”

“The untold stories and sad tales that have punctuated issues of human trafficking across the globe and precisely in sub-Saharan Africa have further ruptured our emotion and propelled us to ensure the menace is minimised, if not eradicated.”

“With new human trafficking strategies and routes being developed and established by traffickers, uninformed victims are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cleverly crafted schemes. A counter-strategy to these sharp practices, therefore, is the effective dissemination of information on trafficking in persons.”

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