By Martin Paul
Abuja
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP) and the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) have agreed to work together to improve on the quality of empowerment that would be provided to victims of human trafficking and vulnerable persons in the country.
A statement signed by Nneka Aniagoh for Head, Press and Public relations, Josiah Emerole, said the agreement was the outcome of the courtesy visit to NAPTIP by the NDE management.
NDE Director-General, Dr. Nasiru Ladan Mohammed, who led the team, was received by the Director-General of NAPTIP, Julie Okah-Donli and her management team.
While receiving them, Okah-Donli called for a better partnership between the two organisations in order to provide the needed assistance to vulnerable persons in the country.
She used the opportunity to call all poverty alleviation organs of federal and state governments, to make conscious efforts to assist government meet its obligations to the people.
‘’As government agencies, we owe this administration a responsibility of giving hope to the hopeless through partnership that would endure. Victims of human trafficking suffer untold hardship in the hands of their captors and we have to assure them of assistance when they return”, she said.
Earlier in his remarks, Mohammed had stated that his vision for the Directorate was to get it back to its reputable status through various innovations.
He disclosed that the NDE had 74 skills acquisition centres in the country; offices in all the 36 states of the federation and six zonal offices, saying that NAPTIP and the victims under its care could benefit from the services available.
While agreeing on the need for a MoU between the two organisations, he expressed NDE’s willingness to collaborate with NAPTIP to create awareness on labour exploitation.
