Human Trafficking Will End In FCT Soon – Okah-Donli

Former director general of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Dame Julie Okah-Donli, has said with the level of awareness campaign going on in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) human trafficking and rights abuses would soon be a thing of the past.

She stated this when the group, Media Coalition & Awareness to Halt Trafficking (MeCAHT) visited her office alongside Keti community women who were empowered to work against human trafficking, human rights abuses and to know more about human hygiene.

“With the level of awareness going on in the FCT through the support of MeCAHT and other organizations, human trafficking will soon be a thing of the past in the FCT.

“This is advocacy and empowerment at the same time. With such initiatives, human trafficking will be a think for the past,” she said.

Okah-Donli who advised women to ensure they take any issue of trafficking to the NAPTIP, also said both boys and girls are raped, urging the women to ensure they always monitor their children.

“It is not only girls that face abuse, boys also face abuse,” she said while urging women  not allow people to traffic their children.

“Now that you’ve been empowered, you have to continue to educate the people about the effects of trafficking,” Julie said while advising the women to ensure that they smell nice.

Always encourage your daughters to open up whenever they face harassment. Sometimes, women will just carry their children to their neighbours’ houses and go to the market.

“Now that human organs are being stolen, you have to enlighten your fellow women to be close to their children so that anything that happens they will open up to them,” she said.

Okah-Donli said parents who always beat their children are training them how to beat their wives, and advised parents to take proper care of their wards  and be  friendly with them.

She said they would partner and ensure they equip the Keti community health centres with drugs and other facilities.

She said they will also train some women on midwifery to save the lives of the women and children during delivery.

One of the women in the Keti community, Sabon Lugbe who was empowered by MeCAHT, Murna Yusuf, said she now knows more about female hygiene, trafficking and human rights.

“I didn’t know what was human trafficking and human rights before. MeCAHT has educated us and also supported us with funds to start businesses and now, we are making profit and self reliance,” she said.

Biyaya Samuel said she was now groomed on human rights, hygiene and human trafficking.

She said she teaches her children how to express their rights even in school and places of  business, adding that no one will come to their community and traffic people anymore.