http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2008/02/29/wus.trapped.part.1.cnn

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2008/03/07/untold.stories.trapped.part.3.cnn

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2008/03/07/untold.stories.trapped.part.4.cnn


I pray that God would deliver us, i used to think i was strong but this really broke my heart.

What kind Of BS is this.

People are really stupid and heartless.

It will be O.K.

who are the heartless people? I hope u watched the 2nd clip as well. Bruno has now realised that benin girls offer themselves to be used as prostitutes so that they can come back home to build big mansions. Whenever they get caught they talk about some unknown trafikkers who forcefully sold them into prostitution.
No one forces any of them into prostitution.
Benin girls started moving to Denmark, UK and other parts of UE from Italy because their business is not booming in Italy again and the Italian govy is clamping down on them.

Very sad

I don't even know who to blame do i blame the government who have failed to provide necessary infrastructure to improve standard of living or the ignorance level in the people - i don't know.

This is really sad!

When would people in Africa learn that the streets of Europe and the rest of the world are not paved with God

When would they stop getting fooled and tricked that money doesnt fall from trees?

The traffickers are just scumbags who deserve nothing but the worst calamity in this world to befall them!

Method-Man:

This is really sad!

When would people in Africa learn that the streets of Europe and the rest of the world are not paved with God

When would they stop getting fooled and tricked that money doesnt fall from trees?

The traffickers are just scumbags who deserve nothing but the worst calamity in this world to befall them!

what about the girls who offer themselves to be traffiked? are they not scumbags too?

blacksta:

Very sad

I don't even know who to blame do i blame the government who have failed to provide necessary infrastructure to improve standard of living or the ignorance level in the people - i don't know.

Exactly how i felt but i think we could start from the grassroot , people in those villages should see the videos with a translator, i dont think any sane person would see that and not have a change of heart or maybe am wrong.

blacksta:

Very sad

I don't even know who to blame do i blame the government who have failed to provide necessary infrastructure to improve standard of living or the ignorance level in the people - i don't know.

You cannot blame the government. There are women born and bred in places like US, UK, France, Italy etc practicing prostitution.

We should not keep creating excuses for people that join a particular type of business to make quick money.

blacksta:

Very sad

I don't even know who to blame do i blame the government who have failed to provide necessary infrastructure to improve standard of living or the ignorance level in the people - i don't know.

Did the same governemnt provided necessary infrastructure to other tribes that prevented them from going to Italy for prostitusion. The root of prostitusion lies with Edo/Benin people. There is a popular adage in Hausa land that says: What ever you give to Donkey to eat, he will always find the shaft appealing.

Its not about the Edo Benin people, its the problem with our country and the way we think. First and foremost an achievement of a high social status is very important to us and its always been a problem

i am not trying to say aiming to be rich is a bad thing but its becoming so bad. as an Edo Person, though i never got to grow up around my people i did get to visit and know more while growing up and i find that the parents are very happy to have their children go abroad because their lives are better. that state is very deprived of essential facilities and the people have to depend on themselves. though similar situations occur in other states as well.

i believe the root of the problem is the Nigerian attitude to wealth. very simple expressions and actions make the people believe in very silly things. an example is the access to public services, if you are wealthy you are more respected but if you have nothing, you are like a leech on the society. i think the way  forward would be the government trying alot harder and also for the people to be enlightened. awareness is not a bad idea but anyway no one cares and nothing is being done. i doubt if anything would be done.

As a woman i can say this, this girls are not happy to do it. maybe they are aware of the situation in some way. i cried my eyes out watching this programme and it hurt to see a woman talk of the pains of being used like a dirty old rag. i can only hope and pray it all ends. though prostitution has gone on for centurys, the new face of prostitution is very bad. i am not encouraging it at all but one little voice can't change anything

JustGood:

what about the girls who offer themselves to be traffiked? are they not scumbags too?

what's even more shocking is the mothers giving their kids away, I don't know if they are very trusting or
know definitely they will benefit personally from total (oyinbo)strangers taking their babies to foreign countries.

I mean how do you offer children to people you meet for the very first time?
why do they have kids they cant take care of?

Confusion break bone,imagine the state of lagos,it is an eye sore.The situation can drive anybody insane and for a poor healthy girl without any rational family background,prostitution is god sent.

Nigeria is a failed state.

I THINK I HAVE FINALLY REACHED MY WITS END AT THIS VERY MOMENT AND THIS VERY SECOND. ITS TIME TO ACT. OUR PARENTS HAVE FAILED US, WE THIS PRESENT GENERATION, OUR PARENTS HAVE REALLY FAILED NIGERIA. ITS TIME TO CLEAN THINGS UP. PLS IF U ARE READY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN NIGERIA, NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN THE WORLD, PLS EMAIL ME WITH IDEAS AND MAYBE WE CAN FORM A GROUP, I WON'T CLASSIFY IT AS A POLITICAL GROUP, CAUSE POLITICS HAS FAILED US ALSO, ITS A "PEOPLE'S" GROUP, FOR THE SAKE OF THE MASSES OF NIGERIA. ITS TIME, DESPERATE TIMES CALLS FOR DESPERATE MEASURES. ITS OUR RESPONSIBILITY, PLS JUST REALIZE THAT U REALLY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, HOW LONG SHALL WE CONTINUE TO TOLERATE OUR GOVERNMENT NOT SERVING US BUT THEIR OWN CORRUPT AND SELFISH DESIRES?

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