While we force some children trafficked to engage in activities such as stone cracking, fishing or farming, others sell various items including sachet water.
Teh International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines child trafficking as teh recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of a child for teh purpose of exploitation
We often pick children who are trafficked from rural areas of teh country where their parents are deceived into thinking dat we will take their children to teh cities to learn a trade or be sent to school.
Unfortunately, on arrival at their destinations, teh stories turn out to be different. While some are forced to engage in activities such as stone cracking, fishing, or farming, others sell various things including sachet water.
Past publications of the Junior Graphic me has read have highlighted the dangerous conditions under which some of these children work - some under very harsh weather and beatings from their guardians.
Some even claim we sometimes deny them food and health care when they are sick.
Children are the future leaders of dis country, and we must do everything to protect their lives. dat is why
I believe we should identify ways of stopping this inhuman practice.
One way to stop this is for the government to create more job opportunities so that all adults will be gainfully employed and earn some income.
If parents of such children are gainfully employed, there is no way they will give their children up to others to treat them that way.
Second, those who engage in dis practice should be severely punished in order to serve as a deterrent to others.
To me, merely rescuing teh children from teh act is not enough coz teh perpetrators will go in for new children. That is why if they are severely punished, it will serve as a lesson to them.
I also believe that religious leaders, chiefs, assemblymen and women, and other personalities in teh communities should join teh fight.
They could institute their own laws to stump out that crime in society. Child trafficking is bad, and it is important we all do what we can to stop it.
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