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Children For Sale In Nigeria, A CNN Report. by Suljosh: 1:16pm On Mar 24, 2015
Children for sale in nigeria a CNN report; "It really depends what you want. Boy? Girl? Young?
Old?"

The man on the phone was offering us young
children with the casualness of a market trader. After
a week of back and forth phone calls, his initial
caginess had given way to greed. He'd heard my
foreign accent and clearly decided I would pay more
than the domestic rate.
"We can get," he said.
We'd been put in touch with the man through a
contact on the ground. We were told he was one of
the men running this "unofficial" displaced camp --
one of the many that has mushroomed in the town of
Yola as the influx of people fleeing Boko Haram has
grown beyond the capacity of the official camps.
It had all been heartbreakingly simple. We'd asked
who had children available to "foster" -- a catch-all
code word designed to conceal the true intent of
those offering up the orphaned children. The man on
the phone was the end result of those inquiries.
When our colleague want to see them, he was shown
a group of children and asked which one he wanted
to take. One, two maybe? He escaped by saying he
needed to check with his "madam" -- me.
I called. The man picked up and began referring to
me as "sister." I told him we wanted to know what
we'd need to do, if we decided we did want to
"foster" the children.
He told me, "Sister, Jesus will reward me," so the
"fostering" was free, he said. No need for any pesky
paperwork -- just a reassurance from me that the
children, if I chose to take them, would "live in my
heart." If I could also then find it "in my heart" to
donate to those still in the camp, then that would be
"God's work."
In spite of the harsh measures the Nigerian
government has put in place to punish human
traffickers, by the government's own admission, 8
million children are currently engaged in forced
labor.
The Global Slavery Index says Nigeria has the highest
number of people in modern slavery of any sub-
Saharan country. Paradoxically, the group also rates
Nigeria's anti-trafficking agency, Naptip, as one of the
strongest government responses on the continent --
but it's clearly overwhelmed by the realities of
working in what is now a zone of military operations,
Nigeria's north. As the insecurity in the region has
spiraled, the worry is that more and more children
are falling through the cracks. And as Boko Haram
increases its reliance on child suicide bombers,
concerns are growing that orphaned children could
end up in the hands of the terror group.
At the camp where we finally met the man face to
face, there was no attempt at subterfuge. We spoke
in normal tones in full view of the children playing. I
could have had one of them, I was told, but because
I'd specified a younger child, they'd only identified
one so far -- a 3-year-old. Did I want to consider an
older girl? A 12-year-old maybe? She could look after
the 3-year-old, and cook and clean. Either way, two
girls would be ready tomorrow, he said. I could see
them then.
Our last phone conversation revolved around what
an appropriate "donation" would be in exchange for
the children. He couldn't, he said, bargain for it. He
then proceeded to do just that, laughing down the
phone at my first tentative guess of $200. Laughing
again at $300.
We finally found a figure he didn't find funny -- $500. I
put the phone down and we traveled back to the
capital that day to show Naptip what we'd found.

Source www.ladunliadinews.com/2015/03/children-for-sale-in-nigeria.html?m=1
Re: Children For Sale In Nigeria, A CNN Report. by Suljosh: 1:18pm On Mar 24, 2015
Taking advantage of innocent children displaced by bokoharamis.
Re: Children For Sale In Nigeria, A CNN Report. by Nobody: 1:34pm On Mar 24, 2015
They are also available for sale in the US, that they covered from foreign media does not mean it's not happening.

Anything happening in Nigeria including sorcery today was emulated from the west many years ago

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