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7 December 2010
Executive Secretary of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related matters (NAPTIP) Barrister Simon Chuzi Egede said unwillingness of victims of human trafficking to cooperate with law enforcement agents is one of the challenges facing the agency.
He disclosed this yesterday at the national workshop on the role of judges in the fight against human trafficking organized by the agency in collaboration with Atinahu Global Resources Limited in Abuja.
He said some victims of human trafficking do not give out information that will lead to the arrest and successful prosecution of suspected human traffickers.
Barrister Egede said other challenges include inadequate funds, changing methodology of human traffickers such as false marriages for residence permits to pimps and gypsies, widening and new routes devised by traffickers, low crime reporting, competition among law enforcement agents and porous borders among others.
He said the agency has successfully prosecuted and convicted 96 human traffickers at the federal and states High Courts with sentences ranging from 2 months to 36 years and also rescued a total of 4,934 victims and potential victims of trafficking most of who have been rehabilitated and re-integrated into society.
Source: all.Africa.com
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