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Emmanuel Onwubiko: Nigeria’s modern day slavery

The British Broadcasting Corporation has this to say about slavery in Africa: “The Transatlantic slave trade began during the 15th century when Portugal, and subsequently other European kingdoms, was finally able to expand overseas and reach Africa. The Portuguese first began to kidnap people from the west coast of Africa and to take those they enslaved back to Europe”,.

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger...

There are empirical evidence to show that slavery is very much in Nigeria even as it has become increasingly evident that the government lacks the wherewithal and what it takes such as the political will to enforce relevant laws against armed kidnapping and enslavement of Nigerians through all sorts of crude forms of forced abduction and human trafficking under dubious guises.

Umar stated that they preferred abducting expatriates from whom he had collected millions of naira in ransom.

 

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