The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, has denied reports that it employed or hired witch doctors to help it fight human trafficking.
A statement by Mr. Josiah Emerole, the agency’s Head of Press and Public Relations said what the Director-General, Dame Julie Okah-Donli, said was that the agency was engaging all strata of the society to understand their roles in the fight against trafficking in humans.
According to Emerole, “not only were the headlines misleading, at no point did the Director-General say that the agency has employed the services of witch doctors or hired them in the fight against human trafficking.
“What the Director-General said was that as part of the agency’s efforts to improve prosecution of trafficking cases in Nigeria, it is engaging with all strata of society to understand their roles in the fight against…
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