“There are 5000 Nigerian sex workers in Mali” – FG

There’s hardly any country where you won’t find a Nigerian. It is, however, unfortunate that many of these Nigerians do odd things to survive.

In Mali alone, 5000 Nigerian women and girls are engaged in prostitution, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) said on Wednesday.

The agency said many of these people were forced into prostitution by human traffickers who “promised of helping them to Europe”.

NATIP director-general Abdulrazak Dangiri said the agency was investigating the trafficking of 37 Nigerians girls and women into Mali.

Mali deported the Nigerians on Monday.

“While the victims are being counseled by NAPTIP counselors, their suspected traffickers are in NAPTIP custody and making useful statements,” Dangiri said.

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“Investigations into the matter commenced before the deportation as investigators from the agency who are also members of the Joint Border Task Force (JBTF) had as soon as the Malian authorities reached the agency through the National Crime Agency of the United Kingdom gone to Mali to profile, debrief and interview the victims and suspects preparatory to their return.

“The invitation of the NAPTIP-JBTF team was necessitated by the need to bring to bear the Nigerian experience on handling human trafficking cases; in identifying and to substantiate points to prove acts of human trafficking in the Malian case,” he said.