6 Nigerians Trading Slavery, Trafficking in Libya and Italy Arrested

Police in southern Italy has arrested seven people on charges of trafficking Nigerian women for prostitution.

Italy’s Carabinieri said Tuesday that one Italian and six Nigerians face charges of human trafficking, trading in slaves, unlawful immigration and forcing women into prostitution.

The year-long investigation according to www.fernilnews.com, Rosario Sardella was instigated by victims of the trafficking, and that it turned up evidence of a criminal structure operating in Italy, Libya and Nigeria.

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The International Organization for Migrants recorded a 600-percent increase in potential sex trafficking victims arriving in Italy over three years, most of them from Nigeria, to over 11,000 last year from under 1,500 in 2014.

Some migrants have also identified some Ghanaians among the rebels operating in Libya.

In March 2017, the Italian police arrested a Ghanaian national Sam Eric Ackom known by his assailants as Fanti for alleged murder; kidnapping and slavery after some migrants he abused attacked him at a reception center on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.

Meanwhile, authorities in Libya have mounted investigations into the matter and have rejected claims by the CNN that the country is engaged in slavery describing it as inhumane and contradictory the culture and heritage of the Libyan people.

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