By Yetunde Fatungase
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) have engaged stakeholders on how to stop human trafficking among school children.
Speaking at a stakeholders’ workshop on Friday, Mojisola Sodeinde, Head of West Africa Region, ICMPD, said that the project sought to support the Nigerian government in five targeted states, which include Edo, Delta, Enugu, Benue and Ogun.
She said that the project would prevent and combat human trafficking, targeting school children from ages six to 16.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the project, tagged, “Baseline Report on Validation of the Schools Anti-trafficking Education and Advocacy Project (STEAP)” was held on Friday in Abeokuta.
Represented by Rhoda Dia-Johnson, the Project Manager of STEAP, Sodeinde said that the the four-year project is funded by the government of the Netherlands and would run…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
