Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation, an NGO, on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to make the fight against human trafficking a national priority.
The Executive Director of WOTCLEF, Abayomi Mighty, made the call while fielding questions from the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
Mighty described the trend in human trafficking in the country as “worrisome”, saying it has gone beyond sexual exploitation and child labour.
The director said human trafficking in Nigeria is damaging the country’s image in the comity of nations.
He noted that human trafficking is growing unabated in spite of the efforts by National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Network of Civil Society Organisations against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour and WOTCLEF, among others.
Mighty said: “There must be a cohesiveness of government and other stakeholders to give more attention to human trafficking.
“I know our government can do it, I could recall how Federal Government and Lagos State Government brought cases of Ebola to a halt in this country within a short period of time.
“Massive awareness creation is the key to combating the menace of human trafficking and what is needed to achieve that is the political will of the government.”
Mighty also advised government to increase the funding of NAPTIP to enable the agency tackle human trafficking in the country effectively.
He disclosed that WOTCLEF would soon mount awareness campaigns against the menace.
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