A Nigerian girl, Blessing Obuson from Edo State has been sold for 30,000 dollars and two Nigerians involved in the deal have been arrested and charged with human trafficking.

Her lawyer disclosed that the suspects agreed to sell off Obuson to a police officer who posed as a client.

Obuson, one of the Nigerians stranded in Russia after the World Cup, has also narrated how she was forced into prostitution. An estimated 1,863 Nigerians who came to Russia last year for the FIFA World Cup are still on the loose in the country, more than two months after their Fan IDs expired.

Dozens of them, who were young women have been forced into prostitution by the traffickers who brought them into the country under the guise of being football fans.

Obuson said; “I thought the World Cup would be an opportunity to find a job when I flew into Moscow on a fan ID in June. Instead, I found myself forced to work as a prostitute.”

“I hope to work as a shop assistant to provide for my two-year-old daughter and younger siblings back in Nigeria. Instead, I was locked in a flat on the outskirts of Moscow and forced into sex work along with 11 other Nigerian women supervised by a madam, also from Nigeria.

“I cried really hard. But what choice did I have? My madam confiscated my passport and told me I will only get it back once I have worked and paid off a fictional debt of $50,000.”