Traffickers taking advantage of poverty, Japa trend -NAPTIP

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons has said traffickers are weaponising Nigerians’ desperation for greener pastures abroad to recruit many victims into modern-day slavery. It said only aggressive sensitisation campaigns would help stem the tide. NAPTIP’s Director-General, Prof. Fatima Waziri-Azi, made this observation when she spoke at a town hall dialogue