Two traffickers convicted in Nigeria

A court in Ogun State, Nigeria has sentenced two Republic of Benin nationals to seven years in prison for human trafficking. Jean Adafayi (21) and Gilbert Ganysode (33) decieved four young girls, two from Togo, one from Ghana and one from the Republic of Benin and sold them into prostitution in Nigeria. They were, however, arrested by the Nigerian National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and other related matters (NAPTIP). This is only the third conviction that the agency has achieved in three years. Justice O. Mabekoje said the sentence was to deter traffickers and to give a message to non-Nigerians that thet could no longer come to Nigeria to commit such offences. Arinze Orakwe of NAPTIP urged parents to look carefully at job offers made to their children, pareticularly over the festive season when traffickers take many children.