The National Agency for Prohibition of
Trafficking in Persons has said a “new dimension” of trafficking in the
country is for syndicates and fake agents to traffic Nigerian girls to
Saudi Arabia....
The NAPTIP Director General, Julie
Okah-Donli, said this on Tuesday during an advocacy visit to Rivers and
Bayelsa states, noting that the girls were trafficked en masse under the
guise of fake employment opportunities, but they were eventually used
for vices including organ harvesting.
Okah-Donli, who also met with a former
Minister of Labour, Chief Tonye Graham-Douglas, in Port Harcourt, urged
stakeholders in the two states to partner the agency in tackling the
menace of human trafficking.
She said, “The new dimensions which the
crime of human trafficking has taken, include mass recruitment of young
girls to Saudi Arabia by some agents under the guise of providing them
with gainful employment. There is also the false recruitment of our
youths by so-called sports agents, and the most frightening of it all,
is to use them for organ harvesting.”
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