Be Careful With Those Pretending To Be Sports Scouts -NAPTIP             

Young people have been warned to be careful with individuals parading themselves as sports scouts.

The warning is coming from the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), which adds some of them use that as cover to facilitate human trafficking

 NAPTIP gave the warning in Abuja today, in the course of a novelty football match between NAPTIP and development partners among which were the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC), the International Centre for Migration Policy Development and the International Organisation for Migration

The match held as part of activities marking the 2023 World Day against Human Trafficking and the 20th anniversary of NAPTIP.

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Speaking at the event, NAPTIP’s Director-General, Prof. Fatima Waziri-Azi, said as much as it was desirable to want to be like Nwankwo Kanu or Daniel Amokachi, but there was need for young one to be careful who they follow:

 “Let youths be aware; let parents be aware that there are preys out there waiting to extort their ambitions,

 “NAPTIP has the powers to regulate and to issue clearance to travel agencies, tour operators and sporting recruitment agencies.

“Potential sportsmen and women are at liberty to demand for NAPTIP clearance from the recruitment agencies before engaging with them,’’ Waziri-Azi said.

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The Deputy Country Representative of UNODC, Mr Danilo Campisi who also spoke at the event, added that human trafficking was a major problem in Nigeria.

NAPTIP, he added, had been responding effectively to the challenge through a range of approached.

Such approaches, according to him, had resulted in arrests, for example of some people who indulge in the act, as well as securing conviction of some indicted for the offence.

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The Eagle reports that, with the recent intensity in economic challenges, vices like human trafficking are likely to take a spike, partly because of the desperation of many to escape the challenge by emigrating