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Commonwealth MPs participate in football match to raise awareness of human trafficking

NELSON MANDELA | PML Daily Reporter by NELSON MANDELA | PML Daily Reporter
June 12, 2019
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Commonwealth MPs will participate in a football match in a bit to create awareness about human trafficking. (PHOTO/File)

ACCRA, Ghana – Parliamentarians from across the Commonwealth will join together to play a football match that will shine a light on the issue of human trafficking.

The match is taking place in Accra on Wednesday, June 12 and will involve representatives from Ghana, Nigeria, Namibia, Uganda, Kenya and the UK. The parliamentarians are in Accra to participate in a workshop organised by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK (CPA UK), in partnership with the Parliament of Ghana, that is exploring the role of MPs in leading the fight against human trafficking and forced labour.

The workshop is an opportunity for lawmakers to exchange ideas around their role in gathering evidence and research; scrutinising anti-trafficking policy and legislation; and oversight of the implementation of anti-trafficking laws. Those in attendance are at the forefront of strengthening legislation and raising awareness of these issues in their constituencies.

The workshop will also cover the issue of ‘football trafficking’, which has become an increasing form of exploitation in the last decade. The phenomenon occurs when young Africans living in poverty see football as a vehicle out of their hardship and are subsequently tricked by false agents pretending to have links to Europe’s elite clubs.

These false agents coerce the victims into human trafficking, child exploitation, fraud and forced labour. It is estimated that around 15,000 players are trafficked to Europe annually under these false pretences.

To raise awareness of this form of trafficking as well as other forms of exploitation, the MPs will participate in a match with local CSOs, officials, diplomats and public figures.

Nigerian parliamentarian, Hon. Professor Mojeed Alabi MP said “As a widely acclaimed sport, football breaks barriers and unites the world. However, the love of football and the glitz and glamour around it is being used to entrap and exploit the young ones and subject them to some form of servitude or the other. As representatives of the different nations of the Commonwealth, we play together as a united front to expose these crimes of human indignity and raise such awareness that brings these issues to the limelight.”

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