A 27-year-old woman, Ifeoma Sunday, has been sentenced to four months imprisonment for human trafficking by the Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, December 7, 2022.
The agency said the 27-year-old woman Jumakai, Ewele, Ayepe, Osogbo, was convicted by Justice N. Ayo Emmanuel, on Friday, December 2, 2022.
The offence contravenes the various provisions of the Trafficking in Persons Prohibition Law Enforcement and Administration Act 2015.
“The convict – a 27 year old Female of Jumakai, Ewele, Ayepe, Osogbo was sentenced to 4 months imprisonment and asked to pay compensation to her victims, the sum of N300,000 i.e 150,000 naira each for an attempt to recruit two females to Osogbo, Osun state for exploitative prostitution.” the statement read.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that NAPTIP is a law enforcement agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria, founded on the 14th of July, 2003 by the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act of 2003 in order to combat human trafficking and other similar human rights violations.
NAPTIP is a national compliance to the international obligation under the Trafficking in Persons Protocol and responds to the need to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, complementing the United Nations Transnational Organized Crime Convention (UNTOC). It is one of the agencies under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.
Since its inception, the agency have investigated over ten thousand cases of human trafficking and prosecuted about five hundred defaulters.[2] Between 2003 and 2017, they convicted over 331 human traffickers and rescued about 3000 victims from Libya and other places.
Senator Basheer Mohammed took over from Mrs Imaan Suleiman Ibrahim as the Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in May 2021.
In September 2021, Senator Basheer Mohammed was replaced by Fatima Waziri-Azi.
