Most victims of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) were lured and trafficked for forced prostitution, organ harvesting and other inhuman treatment by members of their families,the Director General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Dr. Fatima Waziri-Azi has said
Dr. Waziri-Azi,who said this in Keffi, Nasarawa state at the end of a capacity development workshop, organized for journalists and other relevant stakeholders in the fight against human trafficking, said the agency has sponsored 13 survivors of human trafficking to the university and rehabilitated some of the victims.
She said:”NAPTIP had sponsored 13 Human Trafficking survivors to university level and had employed three of the graduates who are now working with the agency.
“We have been able to train and rehabilite some of the victims who are now doing well in the society. One was trafficked by her sister, another one by her brother and the other one by her neighbour.”
Reiterating her agency’s determination to ending the scourge of human trafficking in Nigeria, the DG advocated the need for the media to partner NAPTIP in curtailing the menace of TIP.
She described TIP as a well organized crime and promised to clampdown on the syndicate wherever they are hiding and brought them to book.
“We won’t relent as an agency just as the traffickers are not planning to relent; our goal is to inaugurate vanguard clubs against human trafficking in all the unity schools in Nigeria.We must not relent in sensitization and awareness creation. We will keep relying on you, the media to listen to us and to be the voice of the victims of TIP,” she said.
