Forced into prostitution, Nigerian women are victims of a network that uses 'fetish priests' to manipulate them. She arrived in Ghana in May, having left a crowded hostel room in Lagos, Nigeria , hoping to secure work in sales or as a waitress and send her income to her mother in central Nigeria's Ondo State. But after a one-day bus trip from Lagos to Accra, her dreams crumbled as she reached the green hills of Kumasi. Most of her money goes back into the "system" - to a "madam", a Nigerian woman, and middlemen such as hotel managers. Women and girls like Jennifer, with some as young as 14, are victims of a trafficking network that benefits several people from Nigeria to Ghana. The old district of Dichemso, the heart of the business, lies on the opposite side of Kumasi's city centre. Twenty Nigerian women live at one of these guesthouses, which is controlled by a few men at the entrance. Local middlemen convinced her to leave Lokoja, in central Nigeria, to Ghana. In some African countries, a "fetish priest" serves as a mediator between the spirit and the living.
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She said the victims of the sex-trade were mainly underage girls kept in appalling conditions in Ouagadougou and in mining camps across the West African country. Mrs Ahmed, who has been in Burkina Faso since August , said over Nigerian girls had been voluntarily repatriated this year. According to the Ambassador, many of the girls, who were promised jobs in the country and Europe by the human traffickers, are not willing to return home. This is very serious to us and most of the girls who want to go back as a result this voluntary repatriation do it because they were tricked, they did not know the condition there are going to found themselves here.
Lagos, Nigeria CNN Nigeria's anti-trafficking agency says it has received concrete intelligence that around 20, Nigerian girls have been forced into prostitution in Mali. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. More Videos Traffickers use faith to lure Nigerian women Many of the girls are working in hotels and nightclubs after being sold to prostitution rings by human traffickers, according to a fact-finding mission carried out by the agency in collaboration with Malian authorities in December. The sex trafficking trail from Nigeria to Europe. Some of the girls had been sold as sex slaves in gold mining camps in northern parts of Mali, he said. Officials from the agency under Operation Timbuktu rescued Nigerian girls from three brothels in Bamako, Mali's capital in
