FG to Adopt Name/Shame Policy for Human Traffickers

The federal government has vowed to adopt the name and shame policy for those involved in trafficking.

Director-General National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Julie Okah-Donli, said the policy will ensure there is no hiding place for culprits.

Speaking in her maiden interaction with reporters at the headquarters of the agency in Abuja, Okah-Donli also appealed for extension of the whistle blowing policy to human trafficking.

The whistle blowing policy, according to her, will succeed with human trafficking like it is with corruption.

She said: “We will employ the name and shame policy to ensure that those who get involved do not have a hiding place anywhere across the globe.

“We must do all to protect the lives and dignity of our next generation who are being destroyed now by criminally minded individuals.

“It is a known fact that human trafficking has moved from the era of analogue and person-person recruitment of victims to a well-orchestrated criminal network that is designed to deceive even the very best operatives.”

She assured the agency will nab “any human trafficker from the point of conceiving the idea to the point of exploitation.

“Efforts shall be made to equip operatives of the agency to detect and proactively burst any human trafficking action form the bud.

“The era of trading on our promising youths as commodities is over and all machinery must be put in place to ensure that our youths have a secure future.

“We shall increase our surveillance and intelligence around the known endemic communities and villages coupled with a reloaded sensitization and public enlightenment campaign.”

Okah-Donli stated the agency since inception has 3,407 cases and rescued 10, 685 victims with 321 convictions.