THE Solicitor-General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice, Alhaji Abdullahi Ahmed Yola, has raised concerns over increasing rate of human trafficking for child labour and sexual exploitation in Nigeria.

He also raised the alarm that available reports indicated that there was increased trafficking activity under the cover of the annual religious pilgrimage.

Yola spoke in Abuja on Tuesday at the Human Trafficking Session of the 2012 Annual Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) hosted by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP).  

For instance, he said in 2005, some Nigerian women were deported from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for trafficking-related offences.

He spoke against the backdrop of the recent report by the US State Department 2012 Trafficking in Persons Report that Nigeria downgraded from Tier 1 to Tier 2, an indication that the country was sliding in the effort to eradicate the menace.  

This is just as the report by NAPTIP indicated that about 8 million Nigerian children were engaged in exploitative labour, with several others used for prostitution.

The solicitor-general, who described human trafficking as the worst form of human degradation and fastest growing criminal enterprise in Nigeria, added that this constituted a violation of human rights and an offence to the dignity and integrity of the human being.

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PILGRIMAGE WORSENS NIGERIA'S HUMAN TRAFFICKING RECORD.
written by PASTOR ERNEST CHIDU, August 29, 2012

NIGERIANS SHOULD STOP WASTING OUR FUND IN THE NAME OF PRILGRIMAGE FOR NOTHING GOOD COMES OUT OF THAT UNFRUITFUL TRIP TO SO-CALLED HOLY LAND. HOW DO YOU CALL IT HOLY WHEN IT IS NOT HOLY ONLY COVERED WITH THE BLOOD OF INNOCENT SOULS. JESUS CHRIST IN JOHN 4:21 SAID> WOMAN,BELIEVE ME, THE HOUR COMETH, WHEN YOU SHALL NEITHER IN THIS MOUNTAIN, NOR YET AT JERUSALEM, WORSHIP THE FATHER". SEEK YOU WHERE THE LORD IS, FOR THOSE PLACES JERUSALEM AND CO. ARE NO MORE HOLY. MAYBE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THE MEANING OF BEEN HOLY. STOP DECEIVING YOURSELVES AND SEEK/WORSHIP GOD IN SPIRIT/TRUTH. LOOK AT SECRET CULT PEOPLE GOING TO HOLY LAND AS IF THAT WILL MAKE THEM TO PLEASE GOD. FOOLS THEY ARE, THEY HAVE FILLED ALMOST THE WHOLE CHURCHES IN THE WORLD, BUT GOD ALMIGHTY HAS A MASTER PLAN AGAINST THEM IF THEY DON'T WANT TO REPENT AND TURN TO THE TRUE GOD.

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