NAPTIP Empowers Survivors Of Human Trafficking-Leadership

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has commenced the full implementation of its comprehensive rehabilitation and empowerment package for survivors of human trafficking across the country with the automatic employment of three of the survivors and group empowerment of three others.

The press and public relations officer, NAPTIP, Adekoye Vincent, in a press statement made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday said “this is in addition to hundreds of other survivors that have been penciled down for empowerment following their graduation from the training scheme of the comprehensive rehabilitation and empowerment programme of the Agency.”

According to the statement, the comprehensive rehabilitation and empowerment package of NAPTIP designed for survivors of human trafficking include rescue, reception, sheltering, counselling, training, empowerment, monitoring and disengagement.

The latest beneficiaries of the scheme include three of the survivors that were rescued and trained by the Agency in higher institutions of learning in Nigeria and have successfully graduated with good grades and were offered employment in the service of the Agency.

The other three beneficiaries who were trained in catering services were empowered with fully furnished ultra – modern restaurant located within the ever-busy Upper Mission road of Benin City, Edo State.

Speaking shortly after the documentation by the newly employed survivors, director general of NAPTIP, Dame Julie Okah – Donli, said the gesture was in fulfilment of the mandates of the Agency.

She said “ NAPTIP as an agency of government created to tackle incidence of human trafficking in Nigeria is more determined ever than before to fulfil its mandates. It is also important to point out that the Agency has been reloaded in line with the global tricks and trends in human trafficking.”