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THE Nigeria Immigration Service and the National Agency for the prohibition of Trafficking in Person and other related matters, NAPTIP, have renewed their strategic relationship in the fight against the two transnational crimes that have forced young Nigerian women, ladies, and children to forced labour, servitude, sex slavery and other forms of abuse.
The Comptroller General of Immigration Service Muhammad Babandede, who spoke at the joint meeting with the Director-General of NAPTIP, stated the areas of strategic collaboration and inter-agency collaboration that should be adopted in tackling traffickers or smugglers source of financing and the criminal acts and sustain the fight and interventions by the two agencies as well as the international development partners and the International Communities.
He also said that the ‘victims should not be victimised after the ordeal of being trafficked or smuggled’ as a means of prosecuting cases of TIP and SOM,
The NIS boss advised that minors should not be subjected to public trial as witnessed to avoid a traumatic exposure and that they should be protected and given human treatment with respect to their fundamental human rights.
In her remarks, the director general of NAPTIP, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, assured of her agency’s collaboration and cooperation in ensuring that the country’s rating improves and a new image launder for Nigerian youths, especially women and children, who are the vulnerable group.
The statement by Sunday James, public relations officer, NIS, said that the meeting, which was held virtually, linked all the NIS and NAPTIP critical formations that are in charge of exit and entry and the operational formations of NAPTIP across the country.
– Jan. 28, 2021 @ 15:43 GMT |
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