Arrogance, Scorn and Leadership

 


In Nigeria today, girls and women are trafficked on a daily basis, under different guises as domestic, service and factory workers. Trafficking is on, both locally and internationally.

Unreported cases abound across major cities in Nigeria while victims are at the mercy of the criminals.

Unresistable job advertisements are made to lure poverty stricken and jobless Nigerians into the world of perpetual servitude and hardship. Assurances are given to prospective victims on the financial assistance that would be rendered to procure passports, visas, travel tickets and other documents. An agreement is made, but sadly, it eventually turns out to be an agreement into ‘’slavery’’.

The job advertisements now turn out to be for prostitution, forced labor, sexual assaults and drug peddling.

Sadly, the law enforcement agents are doing little or nothing to eradicate the unabating crime.

Traffickers lure disabled persons, children and old women from the villages to major cities to beg for alms, through diabolic and other evil means outside sound reasoning. This also applies to criminals who traffic human beings for rituals.

Corpses of victims without vital parts such as the private parts, breasts, kidneys, hearts and tongues have always been the discovery.

The traffickers and their cohorts are members of the society in various endeavors who always maintain a friendly posture while seeking to ply their trade.

The business is thriving and most of the criminals are now in communities, if not as residents then as shop owners, barbers, beer parlor operators, petty traders, artisans, vulcanizers and spare parts dealers.

Trafficking and other heinous crimes persist because arrogance and scorn have become what the leaders teach their followers in several communities in the land, even as impunity has become a tradition among children, the youth and the old.

A close observation of children and the youth in several communities would reveal that they have since imbibed the culture of evil and diabolic means.

Surprisingly, with the consent of their parents.



Solomon Adewunmi is the Editor-in-Chief of New Federation (news2day.emyspot.com), People(2day.emyspot.com) and Federationewsday(one.emyspot.com) He attended Ajeromi Ifelodun High School, Olodi-Apapa, Lagos and the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos. He possesses - * BBC/EC CERTIFICATE IN NEWS JOURNALISM (FEB. 2001) * CERTIFICATE IN ARTS AND CULTURE CRITICISM (NANTAP MAY 2001) * CERTIFICATE IN PEACE JOURNALISM (JUSTICE, DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE COMMISSION) *CERTIFICATE IN CONFLICT ANALYSIS[UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE ONLINE TRAINING PROGRAMME, OCT.2004] *CERTIFICATE IN INTERFAITH CONFLICT RESOLUTION( UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE, JAN. 2009).

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