DTSG Takes Step To Tackle Human Trafficking 

By Onoriode Etatsemi

The Delta State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ekemejero Ohwovoriole, SAN, has said that the state government under the leadership of Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori would do everything humanly possible to reduce the activities of human trafficking in the state to the barest minimum if not totally eliminated .

Ohwovoriole stated this in his office in Asaba when zonal commander of NAPTIP , Benin , Mr. Aganran Alao paid him a courtesy visit.

The Attorney-General said that the law was at the final stage at the State House of Assembly, adding that public hearing on the law had been carried out.

He stated that the law was designed to compound issues for human traffickers, stressing that as part of the recommendations of the law, properties of offenders of human trafficking would be applied to the benefits of the victim.

He described as worrisome the reports and indications from NAPTIP that Delta State has overtaken Edo state as the number one state with the highest cases of human trafficking.

Earlier, the Zonal Commander of NAPTIP, Benin City, Mr. Aganran Alao said that NAPTIP was a federal government agency created in 2003 by an Act of the National Assembly to fight human trafficking in the country.

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He listed other functions of the agency to include fighting against extortion , online crime, and scamming, among others.

Alao said that the agency was mandated with the powers to arrest and prosecute offenders of human trafficking and confiscate their assets, emphasizing that it had the power to cease their properties.

While saying that the agency has the power to rescue, rehabilitate, and integrate the survivors into the society, explaining that the survivors of the crime were their major consideration.

He appealed to the Ministry of Justice to assist them with office accommodation in Asaba.