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

Burra (1995), in this Book, “Born to Work” child labour in India, ask question that, Does child work cause poverty or is poverty that causes children to work? This has been the ranging debate globally for more than ten years. It is the contention of this author that the full time works of children as the cause of poverty. If poverty has to be eradicated, there has to do a frontal attack on the full time work of children at the cost of education. The full-time work of children is the result of the exploitation of the weak and the vulnerably and it is always the poorest sections of the society who are most vulnerable to this exploitation. When children start working at a young age they remain illiterate, unskilled and unable to demand their right equal wages and better condition of work, working long hours, they burn themselves out and their health in severally impaired. As adult in situations like these, they are often heavily in debt. The circumstance of unemployment if not unemployables – combined with their interior position in the hierarchies of castles and class – predispose them to putting their own children to work. And so the downward spiral of exploitation and poverty is perpetuated forced at an early age to accept poor working conditions, long hours of work and less than minimum ways, the poor and themselves not surprisingly in a state of “false consciousness” believing that their exploiters are their benefactors. The fall time work of children therefore becomes acceptable even to those most affected by it. So all – persuasive is the belief that without poverty eradication, children will home to work that we have taken this reasoning as irrefutable.  
    WFCLC (1999) asserted that, poverty is recognised as the main factor responsible for child trafficking. As families often have little or no choice, the decision to hand a child our to an intermediary is made without considering the consequences or committing the price to be paid in the future. Lack of social support is another sources of trafficked children, who can be used to support the elderly, child trafficking is also facilitated by traditions and customs. For example, children ostensibly being placed with higher income family members, increasingly windup been exploited. Break-up of traditional family structures by rivalry between spouses in polygamous family, or the death of a parent, can lead to placement or trafficking of a child.
    Out (2003) said greedy is one of the factors responsible for child trafficking Ghana reported that “mothers not only give away their children as a response to poverty, but also out of greed, cautiousness and self-fulfilment. They try to achieve, through their children, what they have not been able to do themselves.
    Talabi (1996) also gave some factors, which contributes to child trafficking as wars, unemployment, underemployment, untimely death of breadwinner (or parents) affluence, broken homes, delinquency and the pimps. According to him, these factors make it inevitable for children to take to child trafficking since their income cannot meet up with their expenditure.
Consequences of Child Trafficking
    Due to advise publicity generated by a campaign of Anti-slavery international in 1993, the use of children in cannel race was banned by the United Arab Emir rate (U.A.E)S. Even children as young no 6 were smuggled in from Asian and African countries and were exposed to death as camel riders to provide entertainment to the audience. The children are tied to the tails of the camels so that the pane makes the camels ran fasters. Children often slip and get crushed under the loaves of the racing camels. As late as 1997, there was a report that a 10 years old Bag ladeshi boy died in the camel race in the Anti-slavery reporter, Anti-slavery international, London (September, 1997).
    Nigeria Tribune Newspaper of Tuesday February 27, 2001 in its front page reported that about 40 Nigerian girls who travel to Italy for prostitution were killed last year while 17 others who boarded a vessel from Morocco enroute Italy died when the nessel capsided on the Mediterranean sea. In the same newspaper, Bonetti of the Union Superior Maggioro D’italia (USMI), a non-governmental organization (NGO) said that about 20,000 Nigerian girls were involved in sex trade adding that each paid as much as $50,000 (i.e. about N6,500.00) to the barrons who exported them. The question is “how will these young girls realize this fabulous amount of money for their barrons before gaining freedom”?
    Bonetti also recalled a painful picture of the order women go through; saying that on some days, the girls could stay for more than eight hours by the road side on a water night to solicit for customers she again recalled and said, “there was this girl I met by road side in Rome one night totally exhausted and was sleeping by the roadside when I asked her what the problem was, she said she was exhausted because she only slept for about three hours after doing odd jobs by the day time, only to be asked to go and solicit for customers by night. Boneffi also recounted a night she met a 19 years old girl who told her that she had attended to 13 clients that night.