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  • News - North West - Katsina
  • Updated: October 21, 2022

NAPTIP Cautions Border Officials Against Aiding Human Trafficking

NAPTIP Cautions Border Officials Against Aiding Human Traffi

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has cautioned border security operatives against compromise and other forms of corruption at the nation’s borders.

The Director-General of NAPTIP, Dr Fatima Waziri-Azi, gave the charge on Thursday at a capacity building workshop for border security operatives at Babban Mutum, Baure Local Government Area of Katsina state.

The sensitization, organized by  NAPTIP to sensitize residents of Babban Mutum on the ills of illegal migration, got funding from the Netherlands, and implemented by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), through NAPTIP, and Niger Republic’s National Agency for the Fight Against Trafficking in Persons and Illicit Trafficking of Migrants (ANLTP/TIM).

The D-G, represented by the Director Public Enlightenment of the agency, Josiah Emerole
said compromising the border’s security would not be tolerated.

The NAPTIP boss explained that the exercise was in line with the existing relationship between Nigeria and Niger Republic to work together with the aim of fighting human trafficking in the region.

According to her, the workshop is to interact with  security agents at the border with the aim of improving their capacity in terms of ensuring the reduction of human trafficking.

She noted that human trafficking had to do with lives, exploitation and enslaving of young people, which should not be taken  lightly due to its dangers.

The Regional Head of ICMPD West Africa, Dr Mojisola Sodeinde, said the exercise is to encourage inter-departmental synergy and cooperation among law enforcement agencies.

This, according to her would also facilitate exchange and flow of vital information between relevant stakeholders s 

Represented by Adeniyi Bakre, ICMPD Programme Assistant, Sodeinde said that such exercise which was also conducted in Niger Republic and Jigawa, is the first of its kind.

“The four-day border community dialogue/town hall meeting and Sensitization of border communities on trafficking in persons activities are targeted at the local population.

“Especially children (boys and girls), women, youths, transporters, and law enforcement agencies within the border communities in Nigeria and Niger,” she added.

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