The Director-General of the agency, Dr Fatima Waziri-Azi, said this in Abuja on Saturday at a novelty match between the agency football club and All Stars Football Club, Abuja, to create awareness on trafficking.
Browsing: Dr Fatima Waziri-Azi
She disclosed this on Thursday in Benin at a meeting held with stakeholders and partners of the agency in Edo State.
NAPTIP Head, Press and Public Relations, Stella Nezan who made this call in a press statement signed Monday, explained that the move is to ensure that all child traffickers including those involved in buying and selling of human beings are apprehended and made to face the wrath of the law.
The victims, Siniremera Snadrine Bizimana and her three children namely Murwaneza Zertha Maecy, Akimana Ken Bethel and Umwiza Goodluck Collins, were set free through the early morning sting operation carried out on their holding mud house located in Umunoha village in Mbaitol Local Government Area of Imo State.
The collaboration made by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) is against human traffickers and other organized criminal gangs operating with the aid of cyber-technology.
This is the position of the Journalists International Forum for Migration (JIFORM) at a dialogue organised to mark the 100 days in office of Dr. Fatima Waziri-Azi, the Director General of the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) on Wednesday.
Dr. Waziri-Azi stated that the successful arrest, prosecution and conviction of the high profile individuals involved in the illicit business of human trafficking will serve as a major deterrent to other people in the unlawful endeavour.
This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Vincent Adekoye, for the Head, Press and Public Relations unit of the agency in Abuja on Tuesday.
She said NAPTIP shall redesign its operational strategies and embrace the involvement of wide spectrum of stakeholders