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Participants at a two-day workshop on the use of social media in fighting human trafficking organized by FIIAAP, a Spain based foundation in Owerri
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The International and Ibero American Foundation for Administration and Public Policy (FIIAAP), a Spain based foundation, has commenced training of relevant government agencies on the use of social media in combating human trafficking.
Mr Rafael Rios, team leader of Action Against Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants (A-TIPSOM), a European Union-funded project of FIIAAP, said this in his opening remarks at a two-day workshop organised by the foundation on Wednesday in Owerri.
Rios, represented by the project’s Technical Advisor on Communication, Mr Joseph Osuigwe, mentioned the beneficiary agencies to include the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons ( NAPTIP) and the Nigeria Immigration Service.
NAPTIP bursts child trafficking syndicate in FCT, rescues 4 children
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The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says it has burst a notorious child trafficking syndicate in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and arrested a suspect.
The agency said this in a statement by the head of its Press and Public Relations Unit, Mrs Stella Nezan, in Abuja on Monday.
The statement also said the operatives of the agency were able to rescue four children from one Mrs Blessing-Nnena Eze, suspected to have stolen the children.
NAPTIP said in the statement that the development represented a major feat in the agency’s determination to curtail the incidence of child trafficking, especially within the nation’s capital.
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Four stolen children have been rescued in Abuja by operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, who busted a notorious child trafficking ring known for trafficking in children for begging within the Federal Capital Territory.
The agency’s Head of Press and Public Relations, Stella Nezan, disclosed this on Monday in a statement titled: ‘NAPTIP busts child trafficking syndicate in Abuja, arrests 30-year-old woman, rescues four children’.
According to Nezan, the arrest follows a tip-off from a media partner, who alerted the agency to the activities of the suspect, especially around the popular AYA bus terminal, Abuja.
Views: Visits 4 By Joseph Erunke, Abuja The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, said its operatives arrested a member of a notorious child trafficking syndicate said to specialize in trafficking children for begging within the Federal Capital Territory. The agency in a statement, Monday, named the arrested member of the notorious syndicate as 30-year old Mrs. Blessing Nnena Eze. ” A total of 4 stolen children believed to be from different parents were also recovered from the suspect and many other children still believed to be at large,” the statement released by the agency’s Head, Press and Public Relations Unit, Stella Nezan, said.