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President Buhari acknowledges the role of the monarch in promoting peace, education, entrepreneurship, health and civic responsibilities in his domain, and the partnership with NAPTIP to curtail trafficking and illegal migration.

This ultimatum, which takes effect from Wednesday 29th June, 2022, was handed down by the Director-General, Dr. Fatima Waziri-Azi at the weekend in Abuja at a meeting with a segment of the Agency’s stakeholders. The ultimatum is based on the powers given to the agency under the Trafficking in Persons (Control of Activities of Organisations and Centres) Regulations 2019 and the resolve of the agency to give more effect to it after the grace period earlier given to the organisations to comply has expired.

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 approval of the National Action Plan on Human Trafficking is a major breakthrough in the efforts of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and its supervising Ministry, the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in curtailing incidences of human trafficking in the Country and also a commendable determination by Government in addressing the global phenomenon.

The legal instrument designed to unleash intense heat on human traffickers and their cohort operating within the corridors of the two Countries was signed in Abuja at the climax of the 3rdNigeria /Burkina Faso Joint Commission held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja and was witnessed by an array of dignitaries from both Counties including the Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Dr Fatima Waziri – Azi.