60 Percent Of Prostitutes In Italy Are Nigerians

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and other related matters (NAPTIP) Tuesday disclosed that sixty percent of the prostitutes in Turin, Italy and Antwerp in Belgium are Nigerian girls.
Executive secretary of NAPTIP, Mrs. Beatrice Jedy-Agba who disclosed this today at an interactive session with the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora also said over 50,000 girls aged between 9 to 17 years have been trafficked for sexual exploitation from the country. 
 Mrs. Jedy-Agba explained that the statistics were generated by TAMPEP, an Italian non-governmental orgainsation working on anti trafficking reports, adding that about five of these girls die every quarter under explicable circumstances traced to ‘tavern brawls, mafia terrorist groups, extortionist madams, serial killers, location fights, race quarrels, HIV/AIDS and drug abuse.’ 
She revealed that a recent fact finding mission conducted by the agency confirmed the existence of many brothels in Bamako, Mopti, Kayes, Sikasso, Gao all in Mali populated by young Nigerian girls mostly between the ages of 14 and 17.
According to her, there are large number of Nigerian women regularly taken to other West and Central African countries, primarily Gabon, Cameroon, Ghana, Chad, Benin, Togo, Niger, Burkina Faso and The Gambia for sexual exploitation under the guise of taking them to abroad for employment opportunities.