NAPTIP READS OUT CHALLENGES.
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons says lack of effective biometric technology has been a source of hindrance to tracking human traffickers.
Its Executive Secretary, Simon Egede said this at a news briefing to herald a 10 day awareness raising campaign in three key states.
Egede, who was represented by Director of Public Enlightenment, Ladun Aiyegbusi said the agency was faced with lot of challenges in the fight against human trafficking from the country to Europe.
He said the other challenges are clandestine nature of the crime, victims not willing to talk because of oath of secrecy and lack of adequate capacity in areas of research, care giving and proactive investigation.
Egede said international cooperation was required to investigate exploiters in destination countries.
He added that only victims were being deported from destination countries without proper investigations thereby leaving the suspect un-apprehended.
According to him, dependence on budgetary allocation was also a problem and so urged the private sector to show more interest in the fight against human trafficking.
In a goodwill message, Head of EU delegation to Nigeria, David McCrae said the project would contribute to building the capacity of participating and affiliated law-enforcement officers, judges and victim service providers.
McCrae said it would also help raise awareness about the complexity of the issue among relevant stakeholders and sensitise vulnerable groups.
McCrae said the project was a joint contribution from the EU budget, EU Member States and UN organistion on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) amounting to N155 million for the duration of 18 months.
He said in addition to the project, EU was preparing a migration project of N4 billion that would have a component on human trafficking.
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