Anambra Governor’s wife, Mrs. Nonye Soludo says the statistics on human trafficking in Anambra State is a serious threat to the social system and calls for stronger actions to checkmate the crime.
Mrs. Soludo stated this when she received the leadership of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, Anambra State Command, at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia.
The visit was to seek closer collaboration to implement the recently assented action plan on human trafficking in Anambra State, and to get leading stakeholders involved in the main process.
Addressing the delegation, Mrs Soludo said that with the statistics on human trafficking on the high side, a lot more of actions must be taken to address the scourge, beginning with both societal and political will to put an end to it.
She said that it is also disturbing that mostly children are caught as victims of human trafficking in the State, and reassured of her readiness to champion the campaign.
The Governor’s wife further stated that her husband’s administration is doing a lot through the Ministry of Women and Social Affairs, to save and rehabilitate trafficked persons, as well as intercept the culprits and called on the federal government to show more commitment to the task.
Earlier, the Anambra State Commandant of NAPTIP, Mrs. Juliet Ibadin Chukwu, said that with Governor Chukwuma Soludo assenting to the National Action Plan on Human Trafficking for Anambra State bill, all is now set for the implementation.
She however appealed for better collaboration with the state government in the areas of logistics, pointing out the need to have a centralized rehabilitation home to those saved from trafficking, especially children and girls and noted that in 2022 alone, a total of eighty-five trafficking cases have been recorded in Anambra State, with eighty-one persons involved.
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