{"id":75108,"date":"2020-07-28T20:42:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T19:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=75108"},"modified":"2020-07-28T20:42:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T19:42:30","slug":"80000-nigerians-held-as-sex-slaves-subjected-to-forced-labour-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/80000-nigerians-held-as-sex-slaves-subjected-to-forced-labour-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"80,000 Nigerians held as sex slaves, subjected to forced labour abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m9192689524289909208\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">No fewer than 80,000 Nigerians are being held as sex slaves or subjected to forced labour in several countries.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A member of the House of Representatives, Tolulope Akande-Sadipe, has revealed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Akande-Sadipe, who is chairman of the House Committee on Diaspora, said the majority of Nigerians in the situation are in Lebanon and other countries in the Middle East.\u200e<\/div>\n<div>\u200e<\/div>\n<div>The lawmaker, in a statement, described the situation as disturbing, noting that most of the victims were taken outside the \u200ecountry with promises of getting jobs as foreign domestic staff.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe current and ongoing sordid dehumanizing treatments foisted on Nigerians abroad particularly trafficked girls under the cover of foreign domestic staff has become very disturbing,&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons has also revealed that in the past one year, there has been an alarming number of daily distress calls from Nigerian women crying to be rescued due to the inhumane conditions they face in various parts of the Middle Eastern countries.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The countries include Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Oman and Lebanon, and Mali, with Lebanon, Oman, and Mali.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Akande-Sadipe noted that some Nigerian students in Turkey want to return home due to the hardship they face in that country but are unable to pay the fares for their evacuation flight.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">She urged the House of Representatives to prevail on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to negotiate for an affordable fare to be paid by Nigerians in Diaspora who wishes to return to the country.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer than 80,000 Nigerians are being held as sex slaves or subjected to forced labour in several countries. 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