About 500 members of States Task Forces of the National Agency for the Prevention of Traffickng in Persons (NAPTIP) trecked 5 kilometres across Abuja metropolis, Monday July 31, to begin a five-day ceremony to mark World Day Against Trafficking in Person and 20th year anniversary of NAPTIP.
The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crimes (UNODC), the National Agency for the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP and other international agencies with commitment to strengthening transregional action and responses Against the smudging of migrants, sponsored the events described by the Director General of NAPTIP, Professor Fatima Waziri-Azi as epoch and the best over time.
Prof. Waziri-Azi admonished the public to stop stigmatising the victims of human trafficking but to show them empathy so that they could be meaningfully integrated into the society.
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The Director General remarked that the massive awareness epitomised by the treck and other supportive activities were to prop up the public to collaborate with the authorities fighting the cankerworm of human trafficking and allied crimes.
After the open activities, members engaged in plenary sessions where the activities of NAPTIP in the last 20 years vis-a-vis the engagement of State Task Forces would be reviewed, following which a compendium of good practices of state Task Forces in combating trafficking in Persons in Nigeria will be launched.
Oba Olufemi Ogunleye, leading the Ogun State Task Force and NAPTIP DG, Prof Waziri-Azi, concured on the need to engage traditional institution in Nigeria on a collaborative formular to enhance awareness and to stem the prevalent human trafficking in Nigeria.
