AFRUCA -Africans Unite Against Child Abuse has expressed a major concern over the growing spate of human trafficking from Africa to the UK and is calling for urgent action to address the problem.

Recently released figures by the UK Human Trafficking Centre show that between April and December 2009 alone, over 200 Africans were referred to the agency by charities and others as victims of human trafficking. Most of them, including children, are from Nigeria which had 89 victims, Sierra Leone with 13 victims, Kenya with 5 victims, Ghana with 3 victims, Zimbabwe with 16 victims, Eritrea with 5 victims, Uganda with 14 victims, Somalia with 5 victims, and Sudan with 1 victim. Most of the victims had been exploited as sex slaves, for domestic servitude or used to claim government benefits.

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