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Although Haj. Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim was deployed to the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) by President Muhammadu Buhari in May 2021, she is already making impacts with her humane approach to the management of the plights of IDPs, writes Olaoluwakitan Babatunde
The Spiraling IDPs, Refugees Challenges
Even though the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) was established with an expanded mandate to coordinate the national action for the protection and assistance of Persons of Concern – refugees, asylum seekers, returnees, stateless persons, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and Migrants – it is debatable that the government ever envisaged a day when the country would be flooded with IDPs as is currently the case today.
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Humanitarian minister pledges support to victims of trafficking and violence
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The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq has pledged to support victims of human trafficking and violence in their endeavour to make a livelihood.
The minister made the pledge on Thursday when she visited one of NAPTIP’s Shelters in Abuja while marking the Children’s day celebration with rescued children.
Umar Farouq also assured the women and children in the shelter, of government’s continued efforts to rehabilitate and provide succor to them.
“Today is a very special day for children and even the parents. I want to wish you all a happy Children’s Day and assure you of government’s commitment and support to your education and protection against all sorts of abuse in this country .
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After about five months in office, the director-general of the anti-trafficking agency, NAPTIP, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, has been removed and transferred to another agency.
Mrs Sulaiman-Ibrahim’s initial appointment as the boss of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) violated the law of the agency.
Section 8 (1) of the
NAPTIP Act 2015 stipulates that the director-general of the agency must be appointed from the directorate cadre in the civil service or from an equivalent cadre in any of the nation’s law enforcement agencies.
“There shall be for the agency a Director-General who shall be from the Directorate cadre in the public service of the Federation or its equivalent in any law enforcement service and shall be appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Minister,” the legislation stipulates.
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.