NAPTIP employs 3 graduate survivors of human trafficking
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has given automatic employment to three graduate survivors human trafficking.
It also opened business for others as part of the agency’s commencement of full implementation of comprehensive rehabilitation and empowerment package.
A statement from NAPTIP said additional hundreds of survivors are also pencilled down for empowerment following their graduation from the training scheme of the Agency.
“The latest beneficiaries of the scheme include three of the survivors that were rescued and trained by the Agency in higher institutions of learning in Nigeria and have successfully graduated with good grades and were offered employment in the service of the Agency. The other three beneficiaries who were trained in of catering services were empowered with fully furnished ultra - modern restaurant located within the ever-busy Upper Mission road of Benin City, Edo State.”
Speaking shortly after their documentation, the Director-General, NAPTIP, Dame Julie Okah-Donli said, the gesture was in fulfilment of the mandates of the agency.
Mother of one of the employed survivors appreciated the agency for restoring hope and future of her daughter adding that her daughter was deceived and taken to Libya where she suffered untold hardship.