• Justice commissioners chart path to end scourge
Yobe State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Saleh Samaja, has said human traffickers are taking advantage of the Almajiri system and the insurgency in the North East to traffic children across the region’s porous borders, He stated this at a gathering of Commissioners for Justice and other stakeholders in the ongoing 26th National Stakeholders’ Consultation Forum on Human Trafficking in Nigeria.
The two-day event was organised by National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), in partnership with the governments of The Netherlands and Switzerland, yesterday, in Abuja.
He said: “Yobe happens to be one of the vulnerable states and we have a lot of challenges because of this our Almajiri system, which is seriously being abused and exploited by traffickers and a lot of unwholesome incidents as far as the welfare and…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
