But in totality, I will not agree it's poverty that is the cause. In some states of Nigeria where some parents can afford to sell their property to send their daughters abroad to go and prostitute, I will call it greed. We have lost moral values. And even the society is a contributing factor. A lot of people want to be like the Joneses.
Every girl now wants to wear a shoe and a bag to match.
Somebody told me that there's an exchange programme going on in our universities. You see, we want to prevent trafficking, we want to protect the trafficked and we want to punish the traffickers. The protection we mean is that we want to protect the trafficked girls and not punish them. Many may not know what they were going out to do. It is when the girl gets there that they give her the skimpy clothes and send her to the streets.