CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Human trafficking is a phenomenon that  is currently  generating a lot of concern globally,  especially  in countries  like Nigeria, where it  is highly prevalent.  The generally acceptable definition of human trafficking is that of the use United Nations which defines  it as  the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt  of persons by means of threat or the use  of force or other means of coercion, of abduction   or fraud,  of deception,  of  the abuse of  power or a position of  vulnerability or the giving or receiving of  payments  or benefits to achieve the  consent of a person having control over another person,  for  the  purpose  of exploitation. Exploitation include at a minimum, prostitution or  other  forms of sexual exploitation, forced  labor or services, slavery or practice similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of  organs (Palermo Protocol, 200). Thus, three main elements are at the core of t his definition and they include: the actual act of trafficking including  the recruitment transportation,  transfer, harboring or receipt of  persons, associated acts such as the threat  or the use  of force or other  forms  of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or  of a position of weakness or vulnerability and exploitation including at a minimum the exploitation for prostitution (or  other forms of sexual exploitation ) forced labor or services, slavery  or practices similar  to slavery, servitude or the removal of  organs.

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