The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons; NAPTIP is to maintain a register of child offenders in schools across the country in order to have a stream of intelligence for profiling and detection of prevalence of the crime in certain locations.
Beatrice Jedy-Agba, the Director-General of the agency disclosed this in Abuja at the opening ceremony of a one-day capacity building workshop for counselors in schools in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
She noted that most schools in Abuja do not have counselors, thereby making matters of child protection, trafficking and abuse difficult to tackle in schools.
She therefore emphasized the need to sensitize and train counselors to act as advocates on trafficking and child protection matters.
Her words ;
“Steps are on to also establish anti-trafficking clubs in their respective schools for sustenance of the on-going crusade against the scourge of trafficking in persons.
“There will also be awareness by school counsellors and head teachers on the current modus operandi of traffickers which will help them to chart a new road map to achieving a human trafficking free society for the future."
Poverty and weak economy have been identified as the major factors sustaining human trafficking in Nigeria.
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