literature invites us to see people in particular. and i like to see some. time. on you to. alow 'd and welcome to the 77th ascends the platform for young africans yeah we get to talk about things that matter to you and i. my name it's great to have you on board. 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 whose investigation into human trafficking was made in feature film. and then we'll head to the to meet to talk to the real women who were

trafficked so you are forced into sex. so it's not often that we get an insight into the world of human trafficking but in 2013 nigerian journalist ovulate he went on the cover to investigate she posed as a sex worker and put her own life at risk to meet both the traffic is potential victims and rest a geisha and exposed the brutality of the criminal networks behind the business and the experience was made into the netflix film. let's take a look. everything shall not be every seen. until. they tell you that i was a very good actress of. strongest you know that this is not a real you and you are only on. the plot of will to refute like

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

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

was to actually do real costs. nigeria has a high number of traffic victims of the seas especially in europe director kind of young believes that since its release in october 21000 troops have shine a light on i cheeriest criminal trafficking networks. the field hospital it 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 we came out it was trending for a long time on a general social media we're just. doing a comedy show not just after the. fall of worry the memories of her deal still haunt her. i spent every day trying to blunt out.

them memories of the young women i came across even before defined our joining. of worry could not change the fate of a 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 longstanding trade relationship with nigeria specifically where they have been in city which has become known as the base for many of these traffic and that's where our team met women who were 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 them miners have arrived in italy via the mediterranean sea the united nations sees 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 live through a woman who was 3 month in italy. she was. a human traffic on she came so my spirits and it's in my restroom because there was a shift. i thought you think she had proposed to me that i could very well i mean

right that me too as did you need those did and also means me that if i would like to go deeply she was once thought to me and i would be able to walk in the restaurant and say good shave. right then i do not know anything about human trafficking in prostitution and the states on the board to me in. airports with their research and passports of and british daughter and when we got to linda sold me to one of the youngest or just finished bringing how did she was on eggs with the most human trafficking or little that was how i was sure as they slipped in the areas of the prostitution and she forced me into sex trade into it 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 home really it was awful i can still remember the forms that it took me to the road called the course or margarita i met a lot of women have naked and i started crying and i started praying i was still confused it was awful in the streets i took a lot of traits from the cost amongst 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 sex worker in europe how were you able to to do that how we able to shift your mindset to carry out the work that was expected of you. yet you thought one because of the trades on one of the trades work that they will kill me or my son that they knew and then i couldn't know and you wonder could ask for help especially because

of the language barrier that i got involved with one of the klan that he learned that knew how to speak english then i was able to express myself that i am not a prostitute i am not. a sex worker really but i am a slut ok that's prince's a 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 ignorant of the existence of trafficking and because i wasn't being mean there are a lot of programs i did trafficking going on but when these women approached me and told me about this possibility of going through to europe to work in the british and when i saw what she said i will be picking at it was very very encouraging then i spoke you know we my friend i thought my parents then i saw it's just like as if people are paid

a lot of story but this woman the 1st thing she told me was we are going to process the visa you're going for it's hard view i went for a job and so meets my curriculum and everything went so fine i had no no doubt no reason to be stopped i was not just really for speeches of all of the contrary when i arrived in italy i think i can remember i arrived on sunday there in the evening the fields. they told me they told me to drop everything and everything that was have you with me my post my documents that everything then after everything they told me that i was inducted with the sum of the price how would send you. 65000 viewers but i was expecting to be paid that why should i paid you so not all the thanks to the 5000 euro then but the way the maoists talking you mean they really are you on this today i help

falling into the hands of traffic as. and because. i have very raucous a lot of stories so many people think is right i know all men you know. that together talk to all of us i have had a story off so many of them that that's really key then i was really frightened when i was afraid i was really trauma pastimes 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 i meant. but i could not really keep quiet that very evening i kept on asking questions like wow we're here then the way off as you think you know then do you know to free all of these people they had been carriers binutils us how. placing talk to us about how you were able to get

to follow through with that 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 gil i don't think that there is an gold 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 get up you'll see. self to and mother you never know do know what you mean as a woman to move with more than one mark on it being you think get me to do roles would be where teens were i could not keep schildt i kind i could remember p.p.d. when asked how when the republic beats with the police what are the government doing about it because you can see that the rich could be might call these very very high and that is why you supply called these also have the what are we going

to do to shift down the the mind and the supply because he never has known the mind now would be supply because he saw a morning and so had that many with the odd few chill dignity in your life on the street because there are so many people that want to buy cells because your reason is deficient there is a god made the how the eyes closed thought you do to my mind social so many with what was taken from you what was taken away then that i believe that that very moment i thought yes that i was rolled up my dignity i was angry i was traumatized i will be spared then because of these i decided i faxed just a day because it's what it's not what i dreamt of. because it'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 the police station 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 row because all the girls are told they will work as waitress they we work aside dressers or as i say it's women they look at the face book and see all the features of their friends who are in europe and they see women peaches and all the traffickers approach is friendly it's i would take care of you i do not have to think about nothing i will provide to you at home a house a work but there are not 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 6 leaves come from one state in nigeria i think the numbers 94 percent according to the international organization for migration 94 percent of these women come from their door states 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 homeric that you're in woman that's a narrative that is going around and what happened since then a lot. of them yeah brought their wives to europe and what they did this started the business it's one reason the 2nd reason there is a lot of mistakes things involved are now though it's a very interesting community it's a community that has a long history it has

a lot of waste of and the possibilities of money palatial i think you talk about black magic yeah although express and in everyday life of nigerian people it's not something specific to their community but in right in there it's very strong and it's very recent is a dream and when you have more of your girlfriends going around and then coming back in beautiful clothes or you see them then you want to do the same thanks that francesca i'm going to come to you now because you are you work in going forced into your job is to catch the people one of the things that we know is that and we heard from princess and blessing is that they don't report to the victims don't come in reports yes it's very important that the victims are going. to tell their stories because a. journey to cross in our. in our system in our governments in our law enforcement. their needs across. the

right. when they are. some said way in here i want to. question you. francesco francesco the difficulties of these one is the language barrier. in africa where we came from we don't how we is not a society when you have a problem would somebody. do you. because one the modern is yes tricky 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 report me i will kill you more that we kill your brother are we destroy you you swear so the whole team with a kind of an f. quick to duck very individual mind you become confused ok you talk about what i'm going to come back to you because experience was this vodou ceremony that takes place and how it plays into the fear that women have in running away and escaping

from the strategy and situation not to rally would do was meant for the blessings of the land and for the cause of the me it's only function is like a logic ali when you are the belief or when you are fred of something because the bible says that fear is their son before god so the most important part is that we need to take away the fear from the victims you know that for how to come out out of this spell without getting out the fear the victim might not be able to comment then secondly i want to talk about to me is the francesco because most of the victims normally. denounce the traffic us but the deliberate on the sect of these people is too much ok so i'm going to come so you know because here's somebody saying some victims to take come and they report but it takes so long the process i don't know in mind of things 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. coming 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 him a suggestion without the witness statement the witness. victims. question it right just when the older trafficker of been arrested so she feels safe she is an. alter 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 so that's very important for her francesco you wanted to weigh in and i will be back to you. something 1st of all we under protection of the victim so she is out of

power of there. first of all so when she started to go with us she was 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 with 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 stop seeing women coming here and being put in the position you were put into i believe that a busy economy means we tell you that a reduction in the mine will lead to all 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 want to talk then they go i did prostitution what those around me they got why using it right up part of a woman to be past being caught but we had princes say that this isn't prostitution that this is slave trade you have both when you like the life of prostitution the traffic idea very very very very intelligent very very intelligent you like a light shone there ok and then you had on a 2nd i think you've let me just go back but 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 there tell me about what you're telling them so that they don't come here and land up in the position you found yourself and we organized a semi announced 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 to follow up the education and also to get the right models to take care of their school fees of the our daughters so that they don't say no you know what it is all send the right people come to if. in particular in a particular society if the government does not want to not provide the needs for the people on what she said when i see you see i'm a guest on his yacht is i want you all to yes put in frank future making find you know talked up you know piece what he's all they think it looks like what you look like you know well and there are instances you hardly see in your reality it's not so frank of what let me finish let me finish because you see this then it's not of then that cost time public yes it. on the procedure dr schwartz dr schwartz dr

if the the the law 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 gold me we did have of the nigerian government to buckle in because no no no doctor what will say to his family that his approach if 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 and i believe that 1st to fall 1st of all education is very very poor education education sue let got pathways has to be open because. of migration so migration how to build a disease when i do live in the european union you see many people there the our plight for v.c. i went to bed at night yes to their plight for i saw the obvious money yeah deny go but there are many agents right on get 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 princess i need a solution from you i said that one of the solution is that we should trend our

young ones in the way of righteousness so that when they grow up there would never become a victim or a clinton that's number one then number 2 we need to go back to our own country not to let the color grip with our government so free education anon so give the youth what you need to do a good job because most of the victims because they don't have free education and they don't get jobs we'll 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 via social media with a conversation continues. thanks to christine on the to. team 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 traffic and thank you guys for watching the show on that powerful note we draw the cats ins on today's show but tell us what you think about the film and the topic we covet you not debate if you're watching this on you tube you can comments below it also contact us via facebook or write as an e-mail to 77 a d w dot com we'll leave you with some music this week songs from kenyan artist lioness athlete and it's called cry of revolution. you.

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