The National Agencyfor the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP is seeking an agreementbetween Nigeria and neighbouring West African countries to end the practice ofNigerian girls being used as sex slaves in Mali. At a presentation tothe ECOWAS Parliament during its First Ordinary Session, NAPTIPDirector-General Julie Okah-Donli told members of parliament that Nigeriangirls were being sold for between two hundred and ten thousand to two hundredand forty thousand naira to work as prostitutes. Presenting the reportof the fact-finding mission to Mali, Okah-Donli said that after being sold, thegirls were made to pay back over one point two million naira usually withineight months, to their madams. She said that aftergaining their freedom from their madams, the girls would then go into business,making money for themselves through prostitution before graduating to madams oftheir own. Okah-Donli said thatas part of efforts to curb the trend, the mission recommended among otherthings, that Nigeria should develop a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU withMali, Burkina Faso, Benin Republic, Guinea and Senegal.