NAPTIP to Develop New National Action Plan

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) with the support of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has commenced the process to develop a new national action plan against human trafficking in Nigeria.

In a statement by UNODC Communication Associate, Olivia Okorondu, NAPTIP gathered over 30 stakeholders including ministries, law enforcement agencies, civil society organisations and international partners for a three-day workshop in Abuja to set the priorities of the new national action plan.

The statement further explained that the development of the strategic document was long overdue as the previous national plan expired in 2012.

The statement remarked that the initiative was supported through the ‘strengthening the policy framework and response to human trafficking in Nigeria’ project, funded by the Swiss government and implemented jointly by NAPTIP and UNODC.

The workshop would provide a unique opportunity for partners to reflect on the previous plan’s successes as well as lessons learned in its implementation and identify key priorities for the upcoming years in the fight against human trafficking in the country.

It maintained that as a preliminary step, the project conducted between April and July 2020 a baseline assessment of the current situation of trafficking in persons in Nigeria. It disclosed that the report assessed the current responses to trafficking in the various fields such as prevention, protection, criminal justice response and international cooperation.