‘How my aunt sold me into sex slavery in Ghana’ – Survivor’s sad tale

In June 2024, Plateau State government, done the Ministry of Women Affairs, the Gender and Equal Opportunities Commission and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking successful Persons, NAPTIP, successfully rescued immoderate underaged girls who were trafficked to Ghana for prostitution and intersexual slavery by an planetary trafficking cartel.

Among the victims were 3 girls betwixt the ages of 18 and 20 from the authorities who were lured with the committedness of bully paying jobs lone to extremity up arsenic enactment slaves.

During interrogation, 1 of the victims, 18-year-old Regina (not existent name), narrated however her aunt, (her mother’s younger sister who is based successful Lagos), facilitated her trafficking aft promising her parent that she would beryllium taking her to Lagos to springiness her a amended beingness aft she finished her secondary acquisition with nary hopes of continuing her studies.

Regina mislaid her begetter erstwhile she was 10 and her widowed parent saw her sister arsenic a ray of anticipation for her daughter’s future. She readily agreed and allowed her sister to instrumentality her girl with her to Lagos, convinced that she would beryllium taken bully attraction of.

According to Regina, her aunt had promised to nonstop her to schoolhouse oregon get her to larn a commercialized truthful she could instrumentality attraction of her parent and 4 siblings.

But the communicative changed dramatically erstwhile she got to Lagos wherever she fo...