Anti-Trafficking: NAPTIP Inaugurates Committee In Borno - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 17, 2019
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 madethis known
at the inauguration of the committee inMaiduguri, said the committee
was part of measures to enhance multi-sectorialapproach in the
campaign against human trafficking at statelevels.
She noted that the committee would develop strategies tostreamline
anti-trafficking activities, sensitisation andenhance empowerment
support to victims of trafficking and otherforms of abuse.
Okon-Dunli said the committee would work with the Ministry ofJustice
to enhance access to justice and otherprotection services to the
victims and displaced persons atInternally-Displaced-Persons, IDPs
camps in the State.
In his response, Governor Babagana Zulum, of Borno State, who
inaugurated the committee, lauded theinitiative, adding that it would
go a long way to check trafficking and abuseagainst women, children
and vulnerable groups.