In recognition of the “World Day Against Trafficking in Persons”, a Nigerian Blessing Okoediona was given the US State Department award by Mike Pompeo, United States Secretary of State and Ivanka Trump, senior adviser to the president of the United State of America.
Who is Blessing Okoediona?
In Nigeria, success equated travelling out as people who travelled returned with enough money to change the lives of their families.
It was this good life Okoediona, a graduate of computer science, sought when she landed a computing job in Spain. With an experience in fixing computers, the then 26-year-old got her papers and landed in the country only to find out that the job was non-existent. Rather, it was a means to lure her to Europe for human trafficking purposes.
Her captor, a woman sent her…
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