*Nigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons says human traffickers have stepped up their game, and the destination of choice of victims of human trafficking is now Dubai

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Nigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has declared that Dubai, in United Arab Emirates (UAE), has become the destination of choice of victims of human trafficking.

Mr. Nduka Nwanwenne, Zonal Commander, NAPTIP, Benin Zonal Command disclosed this development Wednesday, April 20, 2022, in Benin, Edo State capital, at the commencement of a three-day sensitisation programme on human trafficking.

The sensitisation programme was organised in partner with the Action Against Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Immigrants in Nigeria (A-TIPSOM) Nigeria.

Nwanwenne explained that against the norm where victims of human trafficking were transported by their traffickers by land to their destinations, victims were now air transported, agency report said.

The NAPTIP Zonal Commander also said: 鈥淭his is because the human traffickers have stepped up their game, and the destination of choice of victims of human trafficking is now Dubai.

鈥淗uman Trafficking is not abating in the country, because traffickers make so much money from their victims so they take it as a business.”

Nwanwenne further noted: 鈥淭he traffickers are now also concentrating on rural areas for recruitment of their victims.鈥�

He as well revealed that irregular migration was also being used as a ploy for human trafficking, such that victims were being exploited for their organs.

The regulatory agency stated: 鈥淭here is now an increase in organ harvesting not just for money rituals, but also for transplant.

鈥淭his is because the need for organs is higher than the supply.鈥�

The issue of human trafficking, he noted, is still on the front-burner, and there is a need for partnership to end human trafficking, said Nwanwenne

He said that baby sales/baby factory operations were part of human trafficking, and that there was the need for concerted efforts at ending human trafficking.

He added: 鈥淎s security agencies we must be alive to our duties.

“We must join hands with government to fight the issue of human trafficking. I must also advice parents to stop putting pressure on their children to go and make money.

鈥淧arents should control themselves and give birth to only the number of children they can cater for.鈥�

Segun Sanwo, representing the team lead for A-TIPSOM, Nigeria, in his address said the organisation believed that prevention was the bedrock to solving human trafficking.

Sanwo also noted that creating awareness is a key to the fight against human trafficking, but that fighting the menace ultimately rests with individuals, report said.

In her goodwill message, Mrs. Adefunke Abiodun, first Zonal Commander, NAPTIP, Benin Zonal Office, said that NAPTIP could not fight human trafficking alone.

Abiodun stated that everyone needed to work collaboratively to make progress, as the fight against human trafficking was a collective thing.

It was gathered the sensitisation programme was funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by the International Ibero-America Foundation for Administration and Public Policies (FIIAPP), a Spanish Government Foundation.

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