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The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking successful Persons (NAPTIP) has called connected Jigawa residents to beryllium vigilant and study immoderate quality trafficking syndicates operating successful their communities.
The NAPTIP State Commander, Mr Abdulkadir Turajo, made the telephone connected Thursday during the 2nd signifier of the agency’s ongoing Zonal Sensitisation Campaign against quality trafficking and gender-based unit successful the state.
The event, held successful Hadejia town, the office of Hadejia Local Government Area (LGA), aimed to amended and rise consciousness among stakeholders from the 8 LGAs successful the zone.
The campaign, organised successful concern with the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, targeted cardinal stakeholders successful Jigawa’s north-eastern zone.
Turajo urged residents and different members of the public, including assemblage leaders, to study immoderate suspicious activities oregon movements to instrumentality enforcement agencies.
He described quality trafficking arsenic a nonstop menace to nationalist information and nationalist safety, adding that corporate and community-level enactment was important to combating the menace.
“We are utilizing this accidental to telephone for accrued assemblage vigilance and for residents to study immoderate trafficking syndicates operating successful their section authorities areas to NAPTIP oregon the nearest information formation.
“This assertive run against quality trafficking is being conducted crossed the 3 governmental zones of Jigawa, which lies on large planetary routes and remains 1 of the astir trafficking-endemic areas successful the northwest,” Turajo said.
In his remarks, the Commissioner for Local Government and Community Development, Mr Ibrahim Hannungiwa, called connected each stakeholders to articulation hands with NAPTIP successful the combat against quality trafficking successful the state.
The commissioner, represented by the Director of Social Development, Muhammad Muqaddas, noted that the ministry would proceed to enactment NAPTIP successful conducting zonal sensitization campaigns arsenic portion of its efforts to curb quality trafficking successful the state.
Also, the typical of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) successful the country reiterated the service’s committedness to proceed the combat against migrant smuggling and quality trafficking successful the Hadejia zone.
He besides urged parents to counsel their wards against embarking connected perilous journeys.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that spiritual and accepted leaders took turns to talk against quality trafficking and commended the authorities authorities and NAPTIP for the initiative.
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