AGA Africa pledges to boost fight against trans- border crimes in Nigeria
THE Attorney General Alliance - Africa ( AGA Africa), has pledged to enhance the capacity of antihuman trafficking fighters in checking trans- border crimes in Nigeria.
The International Advisor of AGA Africa Programme, John Edozie made this declaration during a five- day training of investigators and prosecutors to strengthen the antihuman trafficking efforts of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons ( NAPTIP) in Nasarawa State.
AGA Africa organised the training workshop in collaboration with NAPTIP.
Edozie said AGA Africa works with various countries and stakeholders in combating trans- border crimes.
He, therefore, maintained that human trafficking was one of those crimes to deal with, adding that AGA Africa had done training with NAPTIP in the past and that the ongoing training was a continuation of the collaboration.
“What we are doing is to work closely with organisations like NAPTIP on human trafficking. Essentially, we try to deal with the three Ps: We pick the victims, prosecute the criminals and prevent human trafficking.
“We do this not only with NAPTIP alone, and not just in Nigeria alone.
We do work in Keny a, South Africa, Zambia and Ghana. AGA Africa deals with transborder crimes. Human trafficking is one of those crimes. We provide experts such as prosecutors, police officers and judges from places like America and Europe,” he said.
In addition, Edozie stated that AGA Africa also provides experts like prosecutors from other African countries who would come to Nigeria and give international perspective to a regional issue.
He continued: “We also work with Nigeria prosecutors and people from NAPTIP to build capacity that will help them learn more about the challenge of human trafficking, and put them in a place where they can actually prosecute people who are involved in these things.
“In addition, using our social media hashtag on Facebook, Instagram and twitter, we try to build awareness and enlighten the people about human trafficking, scams in volving plots to leave Nigeria, only to find out that they ha ve been trafficked to other countries for sex exploitation.”