The National Agency for the Prohibition of Human Trafficking (NAPTIP) has budgeted N16 billion to combat human trafficking, including new programs to identify victims and prosecute traffickers.
Journalists received the National Action Plan on Human Trafficking in Nigeria (2022-2026) on Wednesday, which contained this information.
The five-year national strategy, launched in 2022, will define the standard for interventions by all stakeholders involved in the fight against human trafficking, according to the paper.
According to the paper, the overall budget for implementing the NAP (2022-2026) is N15, 657,082,500.
Capital costs of N14.9 billion divided across five theme areas and institutional development costs of N740.5 million, which account for 5% of the total, make up the number.
A further budget breakdown reveals that the agency will spend N3 billion to prosecute human traffickers. N4 billion to provide victims with protection and aid. And N1.8 billion for research and assessment, data administration, statistics/monitoring, and evaluation.
Human trafficking continues to pose a threat to the security of nations. According to NAPTIP Director-General Prof. Fatima Waziri-Az, individuals and the general public. Who spoke at the launch in November 2022?
Waziri-Azi stated, “You would recall that in 2009, NAPTIP developed a four-year National Action Plan on Trafficking in Persons (2009-2012) that became a collaborative framework that set the benchmarks for interventions by all stakeholders.
“The implementation of the first edition of ‘NAP On Human Trafficking (2009-2012)’ provided the much-needed framework for a coordinated response to human trafficking in Nigeria among the stakeholders.
“The first edition led to numerous achievements recorded by the agency in the succeeding years. Some of these achievements were the landmark upgrading of Nigeria to Tier One status for three consecutive years in the US, 2009 – 2012.”
The organization reported last week that it had saved no fewer than 19,000 victims of trafficking this year.
It further stated that between January and May 2023. Around 32 people had been found guilty of various offences connected to human trafficking.
Josiah Emerole, the organization’s intelligence and public awareness director, delivered a speech at a one-day national learning: experience-sharing and policy brief dissemination event on combatting human trafficking and dangerous migration in Abuja.
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