Causes And Consequences Of Child Trafficking As Expressed By Married, Adults
[A CASE STUDY OF SHAKI WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, OYO STATE.]

Trafficking in human beings is an abhorrent and worrying phenomenon involving coercive sexual scrintude. These practices constitute serious violations of the victims human rights are enshrined in international law and the EU charter on fundamental rights. Trafficking in human being (child trafficking) has been identified as a criminal activity increasingly penetrated by trans-National organized crime that generated substantial illicit proceeds often laundered and fed into illicit markets, with too risk of presentation and confiscation (International Organization of Migration, 2003).
Types of Child Trafficking
    There are two major types of trafficking involve in monument of children for slavery i.e. forced prostitution and some other forms of slavery and these are;
-    Internal trafficking
-    International trafficking in children
Internal Trafficking
    This is the type of trafficking that is done within the country. This occurs with the movement from state to state, originating from fostering and extended family systems, coupled with inability of the periods and other cultural activities (March, April and December). This type of trafficking is in Owerri’s, Port-Harcourt, Clabar, Lagos, Kano, people for internal trafficking are mainly used for economic gain (fact sheet by UNICEF, 2002).
International Trafficking
    This type of trafficking involves movement of children and women across international boarders for menial jobs in factories and commercial sex industry in Europe. (Agan, 2003).
    On average, 10 children daily pass through Nigerian’s boarder especially at Seme, Maiduguri, Sokoto and Calabar children from the South-South (Edo and Imo-State) are the majority of these trafficked to Mali, Gabia, Saudi Arabia and Italy socio-cultural and religions practices facilitate easy monument of children to Sudan, Mali and Sandi Arabia (UNICEF, 2002).
The Trafficking
    These are the organized crime group. However, these organized criminal groups differ in terms of their size and origin, geographical and market coverage, degree of organization and specialization the level of co-operation with other similar types of groups, and a host of other factors. Yet they also share common features such as a certain level of organizational structure the design to carry out illicit activities fir gain and the use of violence, intimidation, deception and corruption towards the purpose recipient of their services (trafficked person), competitors (other organized crime groups and the institutions and persons incharge of fighting them e.g. police, presenters, judges, journalists, politicians, NGO activities witnesses e.t.c.).

Prevalence of Child Trafficking
    Trafficking in person (children) affects virtually every Cumby of the world today. The majority of the victims are women and children (minor) who are trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation and other forms of force labour. It is one of the fastest growing criminal activities after drugs and arms. Given the Clandestine nature of the trafficking, statistics are difficult to gather, but reliable estimates are available. Between 700,000 to two million (2,000,000) persons are trafficked each year (COSUDOW, 2003 and UNICEF, 2002).
    The Federal Republic of Nigeria is situated within western Africa and borders the Atlantic Ocean in the South, Benin in the West, Cameroon in the East and Niger and Chad in the North. Climate varies equatorial in the South, tropical in the centre and arid North. National resources are mainly oil, tin, columbite, iron ore, coal, limestone, lead, Zinc and National gas. The official language Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo (UNICEF, 2002).
    Infact sheet produced by (UNICEF, 2002), it was clearly stated that; about 8 million Nigerian children are engaged in exploitative child labour putting them at great risk to human trafficking, as 43% of them are based in the Southern borders towns of Calabar, Port Harcourt and Owerri. Approximately 19% of schools children in Nigeria work after school in exploitation and dangerous environments and it is estimated that 80% of children trafficked to Italy are from Africa and 60% of these are Nigerian. Among of these, Boys are mostly trafficked from the South Eastern part, Imo and Abia and Akwa-Ibom into Gabon. Equatorial Guinea and Congo, while these from Kwara move to Togo and as far as Mali through work on the plantations.
    It is also clear from the report by Ali (2000) that, a young girls from Kwara State who engage in prostitution and hard labour via traffickers in Saudi Arabian under the capture “Girls get N80,000 cash for dumping prostitution”, where he started that Saudi Arabian based on prostitute from Kwara State recently got N30,000 cash gift for renouncing the trade. The chairman of Ilorin South Local Government Area, who was trying to rehabilitate the prostitute during their pilgrimage to Mecca commented, “we felt embarrassed by the increasing rate of Nigerian prostitutes in Saudi Arabian and we would do our best to draw the attention of the Federal Government to this stain”. He went further to say as Kwarans, we were unhappy that some of them were hired in the sex trade in the Holy land.