Ogunleye
Towulade Akinale, Oba Olufemi Ogunleye has advocated for inclusion of traditional rulers in the sensitisation of Nigerian populace in the regulated national policy to eliminate and prohibit human trafficking in Nigeria.
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Representing Ogun Council of Obas in the Ogun State’s Task Force of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Person (NAPTIP) at a training workshop tagged “Boot Camp” for Task Forces across Nigeria in Lagos, Oba Ogunleye commended the Ogun State Government for recognising the traditional institution in the state as a stakeholder that should be carried along in the crusade to eradicate and prohibit human trafficking in our space.
The Lagos training, sponsored by United Nations agencies such as International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC), NAPTIP, A-TIPSOM NIGERIA and other stakeholders began Monday 19 and will end on Friday 23 September, 2022 at Dovers Hotel, Aromire Street, Ikeja.
The monarch recalled that some few years back Edo, Delta States were focus on human trafficking but today Ogun State has suffaced as an endemic state for the crime which calls for intensified massive awareness and eradication policy.
It will be recalled that NAPTIP has requested the Ogun State Government for a more proactive measures such as provision of a command office for Naptip in Abeokuta.
