tell you. what secrets and why behind the small. discover new adventures in the 360. 6 more fascinating world heritage site. w world heritage 360. welcome to the 77th ascends the platform for young africans yeah we get to talk about things that matter to you and i eddie micah julia is my name it's great to have you on board. out today show is not an easy one because we're talking about sex trade and human trafficking yes what's coming up. we'll meet a brave journalist who's investigation into human trafficking plus meetings new feature film. and then we'll head to the to meet to talk to the real women who were

trafficked to europe forced into sex for. so it's not often that we get an insight into the world of human trafficking but in 2013 nigerian generalists ovulate went on the cover to investigate she posed as a sex worker and could have own life at risk to meet both the traffic is on potential victims and rest a geisha and expose the brutality of the criminal networks behind the business and have experience was made into the netflix film. let's take a look. do. you think shower will be everything. until. they tell you that i was a very good actress of. slumberous you know that this is not to rely only on.

the plot of blue to refuse like a crime writers work of fiction a young journalist goes undercover to expose the sordid world of sex work and human trafficking in a nigerian city. if you've now my story of the now famous netflix film was very much based on fact and the real life experiences of journalist to borat over worry i discover it's very bored of exploitation. and i mean social economic it will psychological exploitation of women i had to because. i had to become a sex worker and mingling with the sex walk. while at university over lost a friend who she says died after being trafficked to italy. in 2013 of worry set out to see how young woman alert into the trade she went on the cover as

a street walker and legace and then for 7 months. i was able to follow every day lives. 7 years down the line i still try as much as possible. scapes. human trafficking is a $150000000000.00 global industry young nigerian women are promised passage to europe but they are the mercy of the traffickers in country rape sexual exploitation and forced labor. some of these ladies once came from local prostitution and mean we got books so i decided to also try seeds with them into the next level though in reality i wasn't a sex worker but in the army i was a sex worker i did what they did the only thing i didn't do.

was to actually do real cost. nigeria has a high number of trafficked victims of the seas especially in europe direct the kind of young believes that since its release in october 29000 has shown alliance on nigeria's criminal trafficking networks. the feel has totally changed people's perspective about trafficking but what it has done in nigeria it has been able to bring forth the conversation around trafficking and a lot of people like i remember when the thing came out it was trending for a long time when i joined social media where does. create. conversely does doing a comedy show not just die after the film. full of worry the memories of her ordeal still haunt her. i spend every day trying to block out.

demesne memories of the young women i came across even before the final joining. of worry could not change the fate of her friend but she still searching for the women she met on the street and hopes to tell their stories. let's hope she succeeds in tracking down some of the women because they are stories told and heard now we want to find out more about this issue and meet some of the actual women who've gone through this experience so my colleague christine will go out went to the city of level on the italian island of sicily the region has a long standing trade relationship with nigeria specifically where they've been in a city which has become known as the base for many of these traffic and networks our team that women tricked trafficked and forced into prostitution here's our streets debate.

this 77 percent is in italy and we're here to get the story off the slave trade of women from africa over the last 3 years 20000 women all of them nigerian many of the miners have arrived in italy via the mediterranean sea the united nations says 80 percent of them get that number again 80 percent of them are victims of trafficking or are in danger of falling into the hands of victims we're going to be hearing 1st from 2 women who know that story all too well princess i'm going to come to you 1st how did you land up in the city i came to believe through or a woman who was seen monday in italy. she was. a human traffic on she came to my spit on it in my restaurant because i was shit on i thought you think she proposed to me that i could very well i mean right that me

too as did she need those did and also means me that if i would like to go to sleep she was once thought to me and i would be able to walk in the restaurant as a good chef. by then i didn't know anything about human trafficking in prostitution and the states on the board to me. what i meant airports with davis and passports of the british daughter and when we got through to linda sold me to one of the youngest or just finished bringing her dip she was on drugs with the more human trafficking all right well that was how i was sure as this look in the areas of the prostitution and she forced me into sex straight into and talk to us about how a typical day was like for you were you spending day and night on the streets what was life like as

a sex worker in italy when you arrived. really it was awful i could still remember other forms that it took me to the road called the course so margarita i met a lot of women have make it and i started crying and i started praying i was so confused it was awful in the streets i took a lot of tricks from because the monks some of the good ones beaten up i got this top of the knife i also got the gone drugs you had gone from having a business in nigeria you will cooking you had your restaurant you were now a 6 worker in europe how were you able to to do that how were you able to shift your mind since to carry out the work that was expected of you. yet you thought one because of the traits on one of the judges words that they will kill me or my son that they knew and then i couldn't know any one doctor good ask for help especially

because of the language barrier that i got involved with one of the clan that he learned that knew how to speak english then are we able to express myself that i am not a prostitute i am not this takes work i really but i am a slave ok that's prince's the story placing i'm going to come over to you and start right at the same place as i did with princess how did you land up in italy when i was 19 i was not ignorance of the existence of trafficking and because i wasn't being mean there i lot of programs i did trafficking going on but when these women pushed me and told me about this possibility of going to 2 year old to work in the bread and shelves and when i saw what she said i will be paying it was very very encouraging and i spoke with are we my friend and my parents then i saw it just like as if people i've had

a lot of story about this woman the 1st thing she told me it was we are going to process the visa you're going for you talk you and went for a job so meets mine. and everything went so fine i had no not doubt no reason to doubt i was not just release of pictures of all of the contrary when i arrived in italy i think i can remember right after sunday then the evening the fees. they told me they told me to drop everything everything that was have you with me and my posts my documents call it that everything then after everything they told me that i was inducted with some of the pie for power would send you. $65000.00 units but i was expecting to be paid that why should i pay you so not. to be thanks to the 5000 euros then but the way the mom was

talking even they really are you don't get to that i help falling into the hands of traffic as. and because. i have very rocky a lot of stories of so many things right i know many of them. that get talked all that i have had a story of so many of them that that's really key and then i was really frightening right i was afraid i was really traumatized then they told me i was going to do really mean there for me i had no phone no me i had nothing on me i went to the streets and nate's on the gallows but i could not really keep quiet that very evening i kept on asking questions like wow we hear the end the way off and you think you know then they were like are you not afraid all of these people had been carriers in euro zone's how. blessing talks about how you were able

to to follow through with that you knew you thought you were coming to work in a computer repair shop now you have to work on the street how are we able to do that with a clear mind i don't think that there is any guilt i don't feel that there is an goal that will come to italy that would tell you that she is walking on the road with a clear mind because you've seen many of them cry and you know what it means to give up yourself to a mother you never know or do know what you mean as a woman to move with more than one mind it being you think get me to do role do we deal with teens were i could not keep that kind of i could remember people to me when i asked how when the report didn't with the police what at the time you got me doing the politics because you can see that the rich should be my coffee it's very very hot and that is why the stock like all these also have to want to we're going

to do to shift down the the mind and the supply because if there is known in mind. no one beef supply because he's so annoying and so have that many dealt with the are you chill that big meeting now life on the streets because there are so many people that want to go by cells because your reason is deficient there is a god meant the had their eyes closed told you due to my nice to show off so many with what was taken from you what was taken away and that i believe that that very moment i fax that i was rolled up my dignity i was angry i was traumatized i was despaired then because of these i decided i thank them just day because it's what it's not what i dreamt of. because he's not the reason why i stalled because it wasn't my hope it was in my spirit then is one of the reason why i decided to search for you to make report i would like to underline

from my perspective of prosecutor that the 2 story you have been told i'm not just story. i have face of more than hundreds of cases of human trafficking and those are like a trick me rope because all the girls are told they will work as waitress they will work as our dressers or as i say it's women they look at the facebook and see all the beaches of their friends who are in europe and they see women peaches and all the traffickers approach is friendly i will take care of you i do not have to think about nothing i will provide to you at home i work but there are no good samaritan no one they are just looking for a source of income right so this is to underline it is not just 2 story this is the

same story all the time ok and what is also the same story in a way and i'll come to you maria is the fact that most of the women on the streets of italy who are being sold a safe slaves come from one state in nigeria i think the number is 94 percent according to the international organization for migration 94 percent of these women come from a dual stage you're researching this why would that be the case and the state has a big history of migration that started i think in eighty's when there were quite so many talents present on the ground working in some industries and who marry thing and you're in a moment it's a narrative that is going around and what happened is that a lot. of them yeah brought their wives to europe and what they did this started the business that's one reason the 2nd reason there is a lot of mistakes things involved an adult it's a very interesting community it's

a community that has a long history it has a lot of waste and there possibilities have many relation i think when you talk about black magic yeah although it's present in everyday life of nigerian people it's not something specific to their community but in writing in those very strong and it's very recent is a dream and when you have more of your girlfriends going around and then coming back and you to feel closer you see them then you want to do the same thanks francesco i'm going to come to you now because you are you work in law enforcement your job is to catch the people one of the things that we know is that and we heard from princess emplacing is that they don't report to the victims don't come and reports yes it's very important that the victims are going to tell their stories because. then you can trust in our. in our system in our governments in our law enforcement. need to trust. through.

their eyes. when they are of the are ignorant and it's all the same said way in here. francesco francesco the difficulty this one is the language barrier true in africa where we came from we don't have we is not a society when you have a problem with somebody you go to the police. because one the mother means destruction that if you want to report the police are going to arrest you don't have a document they are going to deport you try telling that if you re pocket me i will kill you more doubt we kill you brought out we destroy you you swear so the who are 13 we come off and quick to duck very individual mind you become confused ok you talk about going to come back soon because experience was this voodoo ceremony that takes place and how it plays into the fear that women have in running away and

escaping from the strata king situation not to rally would do was meant for the blessings of the land and for the cause of your enemies it's only function is like logic ali when you are the belief or when you are fred of something because the bible says that fear is they stand before god so the most important but there is that we need to take away the fear from the victims you know that for had to come out out of the spell without getting out the fear the victim might not be able to come right then secondly i want to talk about them is the french in school because most of the victims normally. denounce the traffic us but the deliberate on the sect or of these people is too much ok so i'm going to come sooner because here's somebody saying some victims do they come and they report but it takes so long the process i don't know in mind of this happened in

a few months we are able to arrest we have been arrested so many people more than 100 in the last 2 years in 2018 we had. mentioned for 198 years of imprisonment for many traffickers so it sounds strange to me because in it is something that i don't know in my office we are really fast and we are able to build the mitigation without the witness statement the weakness. victims. question it right just when the older trafficker of been arrested so she feels safe she is. also responsible because you know that she can lie she can be silent all she can tell the truth but the traffickers will remain in prison and so that's very important for her francesco you wanted to weigh in and i will be back to you it's something 1st of all we put under protection the victim so she is out

of power of their. first of all so when she started to call a corporation with us she's under protection immediately. after that. we can try to do our best with the prosecutor ok to try to arrest certain traffickers ok ok i'm going to come back to you now because we let's try and think about the solutions one of the things you spoke about earlier was the fact that there is demand and supply we've been told that the state that you come from its main export is it's women like you talk to us about that and why that needs to change before we can start seeing women coming here and being put in the position you were put into having i believe the big economies we tell you that a reduction in the mine will lead to all reduction in supply as well because i

believe that the european union need to be truthful and they need to do the right thing but it's not the european union standing right here and women to to it's funny i mean i wanted to talk there like i did prostitution of what those around me go i use even if i thought part of a woman to be it passed out but we had princes say that this isn't prostitution that this is slave trade you have bottom you like the life of prostitution the traffic very very very very intelligent very very intelligent you luck. the light's prostitution there ok and then you have on a 2nd i think you know it is not that i want to talk about this this fundable part of the world because i'm not satisfied with the idea that the only solution is from a european perspective you have been on the ground you are going home to nigeria you're speaking to young women they tell me about what you're telling them so that they don't come in and land up in the position you found yourself in the. organizing semi nonsense in the georgians in the university of the need to talk

about the risk of human trafficking and to share my experiences as one of the victim to get the young ones so full of education and also to get the right more done to take care of their school fees of the our daughters so that they don't send are you doing so send your daughter right you will come to if you need particular in a particle national society if the government does not want to not provide the means for the people what she said when they see you see it get that it's yeah that is why you know to us put in front future making fine head you know so i thought you know piece work or they think it looks like what you look like and their insights and you galaxy in your reality it's not shoot right off let me finish let me finish because you see this this there is no love then that got stung probably just. on the procedure dr schwartz dr schwartz dr if the luck because they don't want to

that is why you see it is very hard for the even the connection between the italian granite and european told me we did have of the nigerian committal but the cold no no doctor what will say to his family that he supported you get there you know he's saying that the solution is among us where do you where is the solution for you what is the solution to the solution i believe that 1st of all thanks to for education it's very very positive haitian education soon leg up pathways has to be open because pathways of migration of migration possible disease where i believe in the european union you see many people the plight of the so i went to bed at night yeah i think that plight for my side there are these money yeah the night will be stopped but there are many agents right on getting them at the end of the did they will become victims all right my talk right now well i need i need a solution from prince's i need a solution from you i said that one of the solution is that we should try and i

were young ones in the way of righteousness so that when they are good there will never become a victim or a cleanse not one by one the number 2 we need to go back to our own country you know not to let the color bread with our government so free education and also give the youths of what you need to get a job because most of the victims because they don't have free education and they don't get jobs leave it there this has been the 77 percent we've been talking about the fact that many young african women's on the streets of italy day and night we've told we've been told that they're not prostitutes that they're slaves because some of the solutions we're interested to know what you think get in touch with us by social media with the conversation continues. thanks to christine on the. same for that very insightful debate and of course

thanks to princess blessing for sharing your stories and for doing all you can to prevent others from falling prey to these traffickers and thank you guys for watching the show on that powerful note we draw the curtains on today's show but tell us what you think about the film on the topic we covered now debate if you're watching this on you tube you can comment below it also contact us via facebook or write as an e-mail to 77 r d w dot com we'll leave you with some music this week songs from kenyan artist lioness. and it's called cry revolution have a good week. to

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