DELSU Mass Communication Students Wade In On The Media And Human Trafficking

Students of Mass Communication Department, Delta State University, Abraka has reacted on Facebook to the investigative clip on Human Trafficking in Nigeria conducted by Cable News Network, CNN.

Salome Zino, a 300 Level Student of the Department was the first to react to the clip. In her post on Facebook, she lamented the prevalent rate of Human Trafficking in Nigeria while also advising Youths in Nigeria to take abstaining measures on the trend.  She said:

Breaking my self-imposed silence on this e-space.. I just have to comment on this.. So nobody saw the clip of the CNN journalist going undercover in Edo state (The Hub of human trafficking in Nigeria)??.. No comments Abi.. No hashtags.. Nothing.. I bet majority of us didnt even care to watch it.. No.. We are busy talking about who had sex in the toilet and how to train money - swallowing pets (really??) A few silly Nigerians implied that the whole thing was a setup.. Blah blah blah... We Think everything is like Nigerian film.. This is real this is huge

I remember watching NTA air an episode on human trafficking in Nigeria, interviewing the NAPTIP director-general... It really did get to me.

But I wonder what CNN was thinking.. If they were trying to do that piece of investigative journalism for our good.. I pity their waste of resources.. This is not one country where you expect anybody to wake up and do shit about shit.. All of us.. We are all talkers.. No kidding.. Nothing will be done.. Girls will still wanna go to Europe and get raped beaten and all-what-nots on their way.. Infact am expecting an Increase in numbers. You know why.... I will tell you why.. In one word.. SHITHOLE

Dont tell me there are countries worse off.. Dont tell me not to be so critical... We aren't suppose to be here.. Talking about money swallowing animals and shit - eating yahoo boys...Nigeria is like that star - child that Grew up to be a dissapointment

So much of a dissapointment we are used to all the crap.. Nothing surprises us.. We are resigned to our fake.. Nobody cares anymore.. We rather turn faces away, each one to his own.

But I deviate

I was talking about human trafficking.. Yes its been here and will always be here ..its so broad, This is just an aspect of it...

We are way too close to hell to not think about going overseas either by hook or crook.. That mentality will also be there.. The desperation is real..

What am I saying??

Dear Nigerian youth.. Play safe.. That's all.. You are on your own.. Just play safe.. The highest they will do for you is bring your mutilated body back home for your relatives to identify .. Play safe and smart.. That's all

A word or in this case a Facebook post should be enough for the wise!

#Salome Zino

Replying the post,  Egerue Ken Onyeka also a 300 Level student, added that the psychological make up of the youths in Nigeria has made it less possible for them to speak against the evil trend. He said:

Nigeria problems makes me bleed floodly in heart..... Most of we the youth have come in terms that the unexplainable happenings in this Shithole has been filmed somewhere else in many distance years ago, the recorded film is being played to us today. Hence, we can't do anything close to editing it... My point; the happenings now has be programmed in such away dat our voices will be less louder than the drop of feather in a market setting...

 In his own response, Ojieh Chukwuneku Thomas, a Final Year Student of the Department, expressed disappointment at the Nigerian Media for deviating from their role as agents of moral and social change in the society. He said:

It's not shocking to hear about how vast Human Trafficking & the hunger for foreign terrain has grown in Nigeria. I mean the Nation is currently in dire straits. But my Major concern is CNN?!!! Really??! I humbly applaud the efforts of the "oversea" organization for a job well done, for their tenacity in unearthing this abysmal trend currently playing out most especially in the southern part of Nigeria! But it begs the question. Where are our Media organizations in Nigeria? Have they all gone quiet & cold (It's not even the wet season already ).

It beclouds my thoughts & beats my imagination that all our media organisations in Nigeria does is promote obscene reality shows and events (Not all media houses though, but a large proportion of them). Whatever happened to Investigative Journalism in Nigeria? You made mention of the fact that everyone's attention as of late has been on "Money Swallowing Animals"! I mean who wouldn't talk about it? It is actually strange and laughable! But the vital question as a communicator is, what step has the media organisations in Nigeria taken to unearth these social disasters in Nigeria? Sincerely speaking the Nigerian Media should hold their faces in absolute shame.

Human Trafficking and the incredulous, sanguine hunger for money among our Youths has been a major plague that has eaten deep into the social fabric of our dear Nation. There is seriously no doubt that the desperation is real and high. But the Nigerian Media as the fourth estate of the realm and an as active tool for social change has got to take a giant step by investigating and correcting these "mad ills" in the society. CNN shouldn't be doing what CHANNELS TELEVISION and the likes should be doing. Oh Nigerian Media!, Oh Nigerian Journalists!, leave that comfort zone of yours, there is alot to uncover!!!!