The National Agency for the Prohibition of
Trafficking in Persons and other related matters says it has called for the
arrest and prosecution of some foreign-based human trafficking syndicates.
The Director-General of the agency, Julie
Okah-Donli, said this while hosting the Spanish Embassy in her office, adding
that the agency had asked members of the European Union and other international
organisations to provide useful intelligence to locate the human trafficking
“lords.”
A team from the embassy, led by Mr. Raphael
Mouib had visited NAPTIP to brief the DG on the scope and implementation
strategy of the 11th European Development Fund project.
Okah-Donli said exposing European-based
barons, who had continuously engaged in massive recruitment of victims, would
boost the onslaught on human traffickers.
She said,
“The arrest and prosecution of
those human traffickers that are based in any of the European countries is very
crucial to our latest efforts to end human trafficking in Nigeria.
“We are imploring you to join hands with the
Nigerian government and precisely NAPTIP in the area of intelligence sharing
aimed at exposing those foreign based human trafficking “madams” who are
believed to be behind the exploitation of our youths.
“We want them to be exposed and made to face
the wrath of the law. This is one of the ways of ensuring success of the latest
fight against human trafficking.”
The Spanish envoy, Mouib, said the main
objective of the project was to reduce trafficking in persons and smuggling of
migrants at national and regional levels. SOURCEhttp://punchng.com/naptip-hunts-europe-based-trafficking-barons/
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