The photos were released to discourage other young Nigerian women from going to Italy to seek better life. The pictures below and the documentary will give you a picture of what kind of life these girls have. In southern Italy, it is Nigerian women who are among the most exploited, thousands of Nigerian girls and women who have been trafficked to Europe to toil as sex workers, with many ending up trapped in the nightmare world of the sex trade. These women are exploited and abused by criminal gangs in both their native Nigeria and in Europe.
For nearly twenty years the women of Benin City, a town in the state of Edo, have been going to Italy to work in the sex trade and every year successful ones have been recruiting younger girls to follow them , a route that might be traced to the s, when thousands of Edo natives went to southern Italy to pick tomatoes.
I saw these pictures yesterday and I was terribly disturbed. Seeing the conditions in which these women in the pictures worked was like a punch in my stomach.
A part of me insisted these had to be editorial images, photographed with models, meant to shock. But even if so, I also knew it could be feasible. Some Nigerian women could actually be living and working in environments like these, for money, for whatever. How do these girls survive during winter? Lots of questions are running through my mind as I write! How can this go on while the elites continue to steal and loot the commonwealth?
Are Nigerian elites really human? Do they have blood flowing through their veins? This is just heart-rending! But In some parts of Africa β Nigeria, going abroad is a MUST and the parents and relatives will do anything to support the girls to go abroad, and maybe some of them know what the girls are going there for prostitution, but they only care about the Euros that will be sent home, but some of the girls and their family are tricked.
