Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the incessant trafficking in persons posed a threat to the country, pledging the state will be lending more support to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, to rehabilitate victims and prosecute traffickers.
Sanwo-Olu said the state would be working in concert with the agency in human capital requirements and operation space to boost the agency’s response to the crime.
The governor made the pledge when the NAPTIP’s Director-General, Hajia Imaan Suleiman-Ibrahim, led members of the management team on a courtesy visit to the State House, Alausa, on Monday.
Sanwo-Olu disclosed that the government had strengthened social awareness in communities to discourage trafficking and other forms of human rights abuses, stressing that Lagos had raised its investment in attending to the psychosocial needs of victims of abuses and granting them protection from their abusers.
