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Effect Of Child Trafficking On Academic Performance Of Pupils In Public Primary Schools
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1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Children living in rural areas in
Nigeria often lack access to quality education, good health and other
basic needs which make their parents to entrust them in the hands of
other family members who are financially upright to help them train
their children.
It is impossible to ever reach a consensus on the
true scale of the problem but, regardless of the figures, what matters
is that human trafficking is big and getting bigger. What matters is
that every numbers represents a human life destroyed. it is happening on
every continent and in almost every country: whether the place we live
is a source, destination or transit point for trafficking, none of us
can claim to be wholly unaffected by this crime. One of the biggest
impediments to anti-trafficking efforts is a lack of understanding of
the issue. Trafficking, and consequently, the measures taken to combat
it, is often entangled with people smuggling, immigration and asylum,
prostitution and other forms of organized crime. It must be emphasized
that the essence of trafficking is the forced exploitation of
individuals by those in the position to exert power over them.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of the study is:
i). To look at the origin and development of child trafficking in Nigeria.
ii). To examine the causes of child trafficking in Nigeria
iii). To analyse the effects of child trafficking in Nigeria, socially, politically and economically.
iii). To proffer solutions to the problems of child trafficking in Nigeria.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
(i) What is the relationship between poverty and child trafficking?
(ii) Does peer influence positively promote child trafficking?
(iii) What is the position of legal framework on child trafficking?
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This study will be of great importance, as it will provide necessary
information on the causes, effect and remedies to child trafficking in
Nigeria. It will also provide further research in combating trafficking
in Nigeria. The study will also be useful for further researches into
child trafficking within and outside the country. Thus enhancing step to
preventing human trafficking and prosecuting the traffickers is
therefore to recognize the complexity of the crime which cannot be
tackled in a vacuum. Anti-trafficking strategies have to be embedded in
every policy area, from improving female education. In source countries
so that girls are less vulnerable to trafficking to increasing police
pay in destination countries so that officers are less susceptible to
bribery.
We cannot allow ourselves to marginalize the
issue of trafficking, viewing it as something that can be ended with a
few extra task forces or dedicated units. We need everyone to be aware
of how it affects them, and what they can do stop it. Laudable efforts
in this direction should be made. No doubt that in 2000, the United
Nations Launched the protocol to prevent, suppress and punish
trafficking in persons, which establish a victim-centred approach to
trafficking, which has since been signed by 177 countries including
Nigeria.
1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The study will be
restricted to the causes, effects of child trafficking in Nigeria.
Solution to the problems of child trafficking will also be sought in the
cause of this research.
1.7 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
This research focuses on the causes, effects and remedies of child
trafficking in Nigeria but due to finance, time and other factors, the
study will be limited to Abeokuta Metropolis particularly in Odeda Local
Government.
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS
Child: Child in this study means any person less than eighteen years of age.
Trafficking: The recruitment, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation.
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