ABUJA—The Federal Government has established Victims of
Trafficking Trust Fund, where assets and proceeds seized from
convicted traffickers would be kept for victims’ rehabilitation.
The government also explained that the fund, developed under a
National Policy on Protection and Assistance, is geared to serve as
guideline to all service providers in the rehabilitation of victims.
Speaking in Abuja at the Caritas International conference on human
trafficking within and from Africa, Director, Public Enlightenment at
the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons,
NAPTIP, Orakwue Arinze, revealed that the agency also established
a protection and assistance procedure for victims within the agency
through the provision of safe Houses with shelters attached.
Arinze, who, however, condemned in strong terms the call by
Amnesty International to decriminalise prostitution as sex work,
said: “The mass migration of young Africans risking their lives
through the Mediterranean Sea to Europe is a big setback to our
collective struggle to address TIP in NAPTIP, but of a greater
concern is the fact that our world has not come to accept that
different perceptions of the triggers of this scourge militate against
a united force to combat it.”
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