NAPTIP SCALES UP DIGITAL CAMPAIGN TO STEM TIDE OF TRAFFICKING

Development, to further boost strategic interventions targeted at controlling the scourge of human trafficking in Nigeria, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, (NAPTIP), has again partnered with the Canadian High Commission in Nigeria to intensify its digital campaign and scale visibility of the agency and its partners through the deployment of e-learning hub as a depository for counter human trafficking knowledge.

Director-General, NAPTIP, Professor Fatima Waziri-Azi, made this known at a joint press conference between the agency and the Canadian High Commission, yesterday in Abuja.

She noted that the e-hub is part of the new project born out of the partnership designed to progressively tackle human trafficking especially amongst young people in rural areas and urban poor communities as these categories of people are most at risk.

Activities under the project include; redesigning and redeveloping the NAPTIP iReport mobile app, a tool for reporting cases of human trafficking, child labour and violence against persons crimes hence the partnership with the Canadian High Commission.

The app will provide up-to-date, real-time information on cases, the location of the reporter and the suspect. There will also be an offline community-based sensitization campaign in endemic parts of the country and along known trafficking and smuggling routes.