TYPICAL HINDRANCES TO ERADICATION EFFORTS OF ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING AGENCIES IN SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIA

Abstract

Human trafficking remains a serious socio-economic contemporary problem world over. Through human and sex trafficking, for example, a substantial population of many developing countries across the world are believed to be exploited with nations losing needed man power to ensure national development and growth. In other words the consequence of human trafficking means significant disturbing implications for development especially for third world source countries like Nigeria in Sub Sahara Africa where a large number of young girls, women and boys are trafficked from for sex work and other forms of enslavement in Europe annually. Tackling the problem of trafficking has naturally become of major concern in recent yes. This becomes more worrisome as there seem not to be concrete achievement in this direction. This paper therefore uses qualitative research methods to explore the typical hindrances that response agencies face while trying to check the problem of human trafficking in south-south Nigeria, a region known to be endemic regarding the spread of the practice of trafficking.