Trafficking to Vietnam increasing, says NAPTIP
- 2,112 victims rescued last year
- AGF blames trend on poverty, unemployment, others
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has decried increasing cases of trafficking of Nigerians to Vietnam since January.
The agency said it secured 14 convictions this year while 243 cases were pending before various courts across the country.
NAPTIP also said five defendants, comprising Alliance Hospital, doctors, recruiter, and a broker, were arraigned in court last week for an alleged case of kidney harvesting.
The agency’s Director General, Prof. Fatima Waziri-Azi, said this at the 26th national stakeholders’ consultative forum on human trafficking yesterday in Abuja.
The DG said the agency received and investigated 968 human trafficking complaints last year, adding that 507, which represents 68.1 per cent, were about internal trafficking complaints, while 303, which represents 31.9 per cent, were about external trafficking complaints.
She also said 86 cases were charged to court and 67 convictions were secured.
Waziri-Azi said NAPTIP rescued, received, and supported 2,112 victims last year, out of whom 473 were males and 1,639 females.
The DG explained that the females constituted 77.6 per cent of the total number of victims out of whom 43.4 per cent were children.
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She added that Benue State had the highest number of indigenes rescued last year, followed by Edo, Ondo, and Akwa Ibom states.
For the region, she said the agency rescued and received 47 victims of inward trafficking, mostly from other West African countries.
On the new trends of human trafficking, Waziri-Azi said: “We identified emerging trends and patterns in human trafficking for 2023 to include labour and sexual exploitation to Iraq, mostly to Baghdad and Basra; peer to peer recruitment for organ harvesting, sextortion, and human trafficking fueled cyber-fraud.
“Already in 2024, we are seeing incremental cases of trafficking to Vietnam for labour exploitation.”
Highlighting some of the successes the agency recorded recently, Waziri-Azi said: “For the first time a high profile human trafficker was extradited to Italy to serve her 13 years jail term and this was made possible with the collaborative efforts of the Italian Government, DSS, the Federal Ministry of Justice, the Judiciary and Interpol NCB-Abuja.”
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