NAPTIP to focus on younger persons in fight against human trafficking

NAN-H-29
Trafficking
By Deborah Ogedemgbe
Benin, July 27, 2017 (NAN) The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says it would now focus on the younger ones in the fight against human trafficking.
Mrs Nosa Mamman-Odey, NAPTIP’s Acting Zonal Coordinator for Edo and Delta, disclosed this on Thursday in Benin at a ceremony to mark the 2017 World Day Against Human Trafficking.
Mamman-Odey said that traffickers usually carried out their recruitment of victims from one point to the other and that they mostly targeted the younger ones.
She said that in view of this, the Agency had decided to shift focus and concentrate more on sensitising the younger ones on the ills of being trafficked.
Mamman-Odey explained that there were two types of human trafficking which she described as internal and external human trafficking.
She, however, said that most victims were usually lured and deceived with the external type of human trafficking, where they were promised greener pastures abroad.
The NAPTIP zonal coordinator said that the time was ripe for the younger ones to be brought abreast of the deceit of traffickers, with a view to curbing the anxiety of younger ones to travel abroad.
In his remarks, Mr Nosakhare Erhunwunsee, Chairman of the occasion, appreciated the Agency for their zeal in the fight against human trafficking.
Erhunwunsee said the event was timely as Nigeria as a country accounted for 60 per cent of recorded human trafficking, while Edo was responsible for 80 per cent of the 60 per cent.
He also said that in Libya alone, there were about 48 cabals operating in human trafficking and child abuse.
He, therefore, urged the government, stakeholders and the public to join hands with NAPTIP in the fight against human trafficking and child abuse. (NAN)
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(Edited by Idonije Obakhedo)