Facilitator
of Oasis Empowerment and Advocacy Foundation (OEAF), a non-governmental
organisation, Mrs. Adeola Fasubaa Esq., has said 60 per cent
of s*x workers in
Italy are Nigerian girls traffi cked to work in that country as street
prostitutes. Fasubaa, who painted the ugly picture of the Nigerian girl-child
situation at the formal inauguration of her NGO in Abuja yesterday, said the
girls were as young as 13, “who are promised jobs as baby sitters and
hairdressers once they arrive in Italy but instead end up on the streets
selling themselves for as little as 10 Euros (£8.90) a time, and terrifi ed
into submission by gang rape and voodoo curses.” She explained that “teenage
girls and young women sitting on beer crates or cheap plastic chairs in dusty
lay-bys, are a common sight on the periphery of Italy’s major cities, and even
along country lanes in places such as Tuscany and Umbria,” adding:
“Nigerians
now make up the biggest nationality crossing the Mediterranean in smuggling
boats launched from Libya, and many of the migrants are girls and young women
who are destined for the s*x trade.”
Th e lady
barrister, who said she returned from the United States to launch a concerted
crusade against negative vices against the girl-child and the neglected of the
society, said “Oasis emerged to address incessant cases of abuse and
exploitation experienced by youths, women, the disabled and disadvantaged
people in the country.”
According to
Fasubaa, her NGO will also push for youth advocacy, children’s rights advocacy,
safe house/ refuge training for skills acquisition as well as leadership
mentoring. Keynote speaker, Dr Yemi Mahmud Fasominu, said “advanced countries
of the world have evolved and managed strategies to continually train their
youths into responsible adulthood in whose hands the management of the country
is rest-assured.”
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