Since its founding in 2003, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has detained over 8,000 suspected traffickers.
Despite the fact that the group claims to have rescued, housed, and rehabilitated 17,727 victims of human trafficking in the last 19 years.
Only 511 convictions were recorded due to a lack of cooperation from the victims, according to NAPTIP Director-General Fatima Waziri-Azi, who revealed this at the cabinet weekly briefing at State House.
She reported that 394 victims have passed through shelters since January 2022.
She also revealed that the organization has funded 15 victims to attend institutions around the country, with three of them now serving as NAPTIP officers.
While 9,814 cases have been documented since the agency’s creation, she claims that over 20,000 Nigerians are still being trafficked in the mail.
