Director-General
of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP),
Dame Julie Okah-Donli revealed this on Friday.
Rivers, Akwa
Ibom and Cross River States this week inaugurated a task force team in order to
check and curb human trafficking activities from these states to neighbouring
countries.
She thanked
governors of the three states for their warm reception as the task force on
Human Trafficking where inaugurated.
he
inauguration of the task force in Rivers saw the governor of the state, Nyesom
Wike reiterating his administration’s commitment to eradicating human
trafficking.
Represented
by the Deputy Governor, Ipalibo Harry Banigo, Wike urged the task force to
probe human trafficking issues, stressing why it is important to share
information and extend partnership to end child trafficking.
Also in Cross
River, during the task force inauguration, the state governor, Ben Ayade
represented by his deputy, Prof. Iyara Esu, urged the task force to come up
with modalities on how to check the scourge.
The governor
also revealed that human trafficking is a problem owing to unemployment as his
government is trying to tackle the problem from its root by solving the
challenge of joblessness.
Governor
Ayade charged the members of the task force to put in their best adding that
whatever they require for the success of their work would be provided by the
state government.
After the
inauguration in the three states, NAPTIP DG prayed that the task force in all
three states works hard to end the menace.
She also
thanked IOM, the UN migration agency for supporting the project. Okah-Donli
said that without the support of the organization and its chief of mission,
Franz Celestine, the inauguration would have been impossible and believes that
all together they can ensure Nigeria becomes a Human Trafficking and
violence-free nation.
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