NAPTIP Engages Edo Witch Doctors In Fight Against Human Trafficking

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, has engaged the services of local witch doctors in Benin, Edo State to control human trafficking.

The state, and in particular its capital city, Benin, is alleged to have the largest cases of human trafficking in Nigeria.

According to a report by The Guardian, the Director General of NAPTIP, Julie Okah-Donli, disclosed this at a symposium for the agency’s officials in Abuja on Monday.

The NAPTIP boss said investigations revealed that some local witch doctors were involved or used in the trafficking of persons to Europe.

Okah-Donli said during the symposium, “When we gathered these witch doctors recently to sensitise them on what human trafficking victims go through in Europe, they were shocked.

“And they have made their commitments to work with us to fight the menace of human trafficking.”

She said the agency was more committed and determined than ever to defeat the affliction of trafficking in persons thus would involve and sensitise more witch doctors in the country and make them NAPTIP ambassadors in fighting human trafficking.