Fifty Human Traffickers Convicted In Benin

Fifty human traffickers since inception have been convicted by the Benin Zonal Command of National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters, NAPTIP, comprising Edo and Delta states.

This comes as the command intensifies the sensitization of about 10,000 student victims across nine secondary schools within the two states in the last one week.

The sensitization programme, which was carried out in collaboration with the Prisoners’ Rehabilitation and Welfare Action, PRAWA, is one of the components of the planned strategic to help reinstate and  rectify broken individuals is also to reduce the number of stranded, unemployed and less opportune people roaming on the street. 

The agency targeted at post-primary educational institutions in urban and rural areas for victims within Benin Zonal Command.

Speaking at the various locations, the Benin Zonal Commander of NAPTIP, Mrs Oluchi Ebiringa, expressed sadness over the activities of human traffickers and their agents in the command, who she said had now shifted their operations to rural areas, taking advantage of the vulnerability of such areas.