By Gboyega Alaka
CLEEN Foundation in furtherance of its UN Women-sponsored activities on prevention of forced migration and trafficking in Girls in Nigeria, recently paid an official visit to the Chairman of the State’s Task Force on Human trafficking, Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN).
The CLEEN team was accompanied by a team of NAPTIP (National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons) Lagos Zone, led by its Zonal Commander, Mr Ganiu Alao Aganran.
Onigbanjo, who is also the state’s Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General, was represented at the meeting by the Director, Directorate of Citizen’s Rights, Mrs. Toyin Odusanya.
Apprising the Chairperson with findings of the Gender Audit report, Head of CLEEN Foundation Lagos office and Programme Advisor, Blessing Abiri, said enforcement of existing laws on trafficking in persons has been a great challenge.
She listed slow process of criminal justice system, unwillingness on the part of the courts to confiscate assets of traffickers, weak sentencing as well as the issue of lack of gender sensitivity and limited knowledge of the laws by the law enforcement agents themselves as some of the factors impeding progress in its advocacy.
Speaking, the NAPTIP Lagos Zonal Commander apprised the Chairman with its activities, which he stressed are always national in nature and which states should endeavour to always key into.
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