HUMAN TRAFFICKING, BLOW TO NIGERIA
By Lillian Okenwa

February 27, 2004 – (This Day - Lagos) The President and founder of Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF), Chief Mrs. Amina Titi Atiku Abubakar has described human trafficking as a major factor that affects the country's image.

The phenomenon, which she said, tends to scare off potential foreign investors as well as subject genuine Nigerian international travellers to a lot of embarrassment at some embassies is according to her, the heaviest price the country pays for the scourge of human trafficking.

Mrs. Atiku Abubakar who delivered a goodwill message at the opening ceremony of a 5-day workshop on "Measures to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings in Benin, Nigeria and Togo," in Abuja yesterday said, "It is obvious that when the indices of corruption and poor human development in Nigeria are drawn up, Women Trafficking and Child Labour would have contributed a lot to towards dragging us further down."

Earlier, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Akinlolu Olujimi, SAN in his opening address, reiterated Federal Government's commitment to the fight against human trafficking.

From: http://allafrica.com/stories/200402270197.html