Time to curb child trafficking

Today we investigate a report of a Rwandan national, Scovia Mbabazi, who is said to have kidnapped a 15 year old boy here in Rwanda, with the intention of selling him in Uganda. Now, how Mbabazi managed to pull this one off is still a puzzle for us. A 15 year old boy is at the prime of puberty and not really a child by any measure, he would somehow be in the know how that his life is in danger. It is important before rushing to dismiss this one reported case as being an isolated one, to look at how in the first place this one child was lured into an unknown world to Uganda. What is his family back-ground? Were his parents complicit in this criminal act? These are relevant questions to ask if we are to work out ways, in our different communities of protecting our children against child traffickers, while interrogating the root causes of this vice. Child trafficking is a symptom of the poverty in our society, most children drop out school out of their parents failure to pay fees for them. Others are trafficked merely for labour to send money back home.