The House of Representatives has charged the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Immigration Service, to accentuate coordinated operations in opposition to trafficking syndicates.
It known as for stronger intelligence-led investigations, improved surveillance, efficient prosecution and higher funding for companies concerned in combating human trafficking.
The House additional known as for stronger sufferer’s identification, rescue, rehabilitation, psychosocial assist and reintegration programmes, significantly for girls and youngsters.
This was in response to considerations over reported organised community of traffickers concerned in exploiting ladies, kids and different weak Nigerians.
The decision Thursday was fallout of a movement by Hon. Dominic Okafor, who expressed worries over the rising actions of trafficking syndicates, as properly the same old devastating penalties on the victims.
He famous that: “Victims are frequently deceived with promises of lucrative jobs, education, marriage and better opportunities abroad, only to end up in forced labour, domestic servitude, sexual exploitation, forced begging and even organ harvesting.”
