Child Trafficking should be tackled by all (NAPTIP)
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP)
has said that sharing experiences and best practices among law
enforcement agencies and the judiciary was key to combating crime. Mrs
Beatrice Jedi-Agba, the Director-General of NAPTIP said this on Tuesday
in Abuja at a workshop organised for judges on human trafficking.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the workshop was attended
by judges drawn from federal and states high courts.
Jedi-Agba
said that the workshop was aimed at sharing experiences and information
between NAPTIP and the Judiciary to foster the existing relationship in
the fight against human trafficking.
"The
judiciary is generally referred to, as the hope of the common man and
the restorer of societal order and individual human dignity.
"It
has a fundamental role to play in the implementation of the Trafficking
in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act.
"You will agree that the effectiveness of any law lies in its applicability, implementation and enforcement mechanisms,’’ she said.
The
DG expressed optimism that the existing relationship between the
judiciary and NAPTIP would help to tackle human trafficking.
She
commended the judges for making out time to "attend to a matter which
blights on national life and is an, on-going challenge to humanity’’.
Also
speaking at the event, Mrs Corinne Dettmeiger-Vermeulen, the Dutch
National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence
against Children, said that there was need for adequate prosecution of
offenders