The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons has reportedly rescued a total of 200 trafficked children in Plateau State.
Jacob Bubba, the Chairman of the state Council of Chiefs and Emirs, disclosed this on Thursday after the state Commandant of NAPTIP, Adole Alexander, visited him at his palace in Jos, the state capital.
Bubba called for recertification and revalidation of orphanages and charity homes in the state to get rid of traffickers who used the homes for all forms of criminalities against women and children.
A statement issued by the monarch and signed by his aide, Alex Rwang-Pam, after the visit of the NAPTIP officials, said, “The monarch said trafficking in persons is an organised crime with a wide network of beneficiaries, which requires huge intelligence gathering and stringent government policies and penalties to discourage perpetrators of the crime.”
The statement quoted Alexander as highlighting some of the achievements of the agency in the state to include “rescuing of about 200 trafficked children mostly from Riyom and Bassa local government areas, the prosecution of a foreigner who abused a minor, as well as the discovering of a baby factory in the Gwarandok area of Jos, among others.”
