The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons,
NAPTIP has inaugurated a 42-member committee to check human
trafficking and abuse in the State.
The agency’s Director-General, Julie Okon-Dunli, who made
this known
at the inauguration of the committee in
Maiduguri, said the committee
was part of measures to enhance multi-sectorial
approach in the
campaign against human trafficking at state
levels.
She noted that the committee would develop strategies to
streamline
anti-trafficking activities, sensitisation and
enhance empowerment
support to victims of trafficking and other
forms of abuse.
Okon-Dunli said the committee would work with the Ministry of
Justice
to enhance access to justice and other
protection services to the
victims and displaced persons at
Internally-Displaced-Persons, IDPs
camps in the State.
In his response, Governor Babagana Zulum, of Borno State, who
inaugurated the committee, lauded the
initiative, adding that it would
go a long way to check trafficking and abuse
against women, children
and vulnerable groups.
