The recent assault on the perpertrators of human trafficking is receieving a boast as the agency has been agreesive in its campaign aimed at arresting those who earn their elicit living through this inhuman trade.
Executive Secretary of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Person (NAPTIP), Carol Ndaguba, has raised an alarm on the growing incidence of sale of babies by unscrupulous individuals.
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Ndaguba, who spoke on Tuesday in Abuja during the agency’s first quarter programme review, condemned the trading in babies, describing it as a modern slavery.
She disclosed that NAPTIP has received reports from the media and citizens of sale of babies by illegal children homes, hospitals, doctors and parents.
This, she said, was sustained by sharp practices of social welfare officers in the states.
According to her, reports from NAPTIP zonal offices, especially Enugu, indicted several homes and camps where teenage mothers are kept until they deliver their babies.
The babies, she said, are quietly handed over to criminals who sell them for illegal adoption or rituals.
The NAPTIP boss said she has placed all her investigation officers in the South East Zone on full alert for a the arrest of the human traffickers.
Ndaguba blamed poverty and non existent social welfare programmes for the escalating number of human trafficking rings.
She called on the state governments to sign the child right acts and aggressively pursue achievement of the actions enshrined in them.
“Children rights are human rights. State governments must show stronger commitment to poverty alleviation, with their states,” she said.

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