Nabilatuk Deputy Resident District Commissioner Jacinta Ayo told URN that hundreds of children are trafficked from Nabilatuk and taken to other regions after parents have been convinced that they will be making enough money to sustain their families back home. She says traffickers are targeting children aged between 10 and 17.
During the monitoring visit by the Kotido district leaders, they found out that some parents are intentionally starving their children so that they remain malnourished and continue benefiting from food and cash.
The children heading families say that the inability to provide adequate food to feed the family forced them to drop out of school to find other alternatives for survival.
