.....Will it ever end? Why do people continue to have kids when they know very well that they cannot afford to feed them?

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Trafficked children re-united with their families

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has reunited 89 trafficked children with their parents at Immuna, a fishing community in the Central Region. The children were “sold into slavery” by their parents to work with fishermen at Yeji.

The IOM is campaigning for an end to child trafficking in various communities in the Central and Volta regions. It provided counseling services for the children – most of whom were sexually and physically abused by their slave masters. The children were also supplied with textbooks and other materials to enable them continue with their education. The parents have been given soft-loans to engage in income-generating ventures so that they will be able to take care of their children.

At the ceremony to reunite the children and their parents, various speakers advised parents in the community to stop trafficking their children, warning that they risk imprisonment if they continue with the practice.

article retrieved from ghanaweb.com This was from 2005!!!!!

That's so sad. I hear Benin City has a bad case of that stuff going on.

The sad thing about this is the kids have been sent back to the same parents who sold their OWN kids for a few dollars.

yup......almost everybody in Benin city have got close relatives that r prostitues abroad.

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whoever said money can't buy happiness,didn't know where to shop..

A catch 22 situation. This is so sad.

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What a cruel world we live in. God help us all.

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Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him from them all.

're u sure?

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THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT ME; SO I GUESS I AM DOING SOMETHING RIGHT.

U MAY lOVE ME OR HATE ME BUT U CANT IGNORE ME

Amen oh!!!

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Interesting.

I don't know if it's as bad as Brenda makes it out to be, be I hear that the situation is pretty damn bad there. And that's a damn shame. The capital of one of the worlds most ancient and greatest Empires/Kingdoms ever, now the home of female degradation.

Are you generalizing from what you heard or talking out of assumptions?,cos I don't think you're so correct and that its as bad as you make it seem in your statement sha...not that am Benin or anything,just making sure you have facts to back your statement up.

How body?

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KEEP YA HEAD UP POEPLE FOR IT IS CROWDED BELOW!!.

yea i have facts.i lived in Benin nd there's hardly any house that hasn't got girls prostituting abroad. more than 5 of my cousin's do it.that's how they help their siblings nd parents.

i'm doing great.i hope u r too.take care.

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Hummmm, I think you're exaggerating a bit, but on another note; why is this behavior so acceptable amongst the families in the city?? I think that I may have an idea as to why. I can remember coming across a site in which documentations written by the first group of portuguese to arrive in the city recorded.

And I can distinctly remember reading one quote in which stated that the King and other rulers of the Benin/Edo Empire had a plethora of wives and in which roamed around with them wherever they traveled within the Benin City, and on occasion to other towns and villages around the city. The King himself sported like 1,000 wives. These wives were ((GIVEN)) away to the rulers as gifts to the rulers by Edo families who felt it a honorable thing to give the rulers, especially the king, a " beautiful young virgin female" of their family or keep.

The "keep" part was in retrospect to the fact of that alot of Edo families owned slave girls from other tribes in which they used like house girls are used today, and if the family didn't have a female of their own blood to give to the King or another ruler.... they would give them a house/slave girl in which fit the criteria, instead. These girls would be given away to the King and others as the rulers paraded through the individual towns, villages and cities withing their Empire. Perhaps it is from this historical Edo tradition that this new form of accepted girl trade is derived from.

I think these parents should be held accountable for these crimes (that's what it is afterall). Why should they keep having kids if they cannot take care of them? My late father-inlaw had 3 wives and 17 children. He was not an educated man but all his children that he could put through school, he put through school. It was not easy but he tried. My husband is what he is today because his father chose to be a father rather than take the easy way out. Before everybody starts attacking me for being insensitive to their plight, I do understand that things are hard. That is not an excuse to sell your child into slavery. Haba. Abomination. If the parents honestly believe that these children are going out there to go work for somebody else then these children can also stay home and work. They can go to the farm, they can go with their mothers to the market. They can fetch firewood for their mothers to sell. Yes, it is a hard life but imagine what they will go through being a slave. Atleast that way they are home with their families and all that is familiar to them.