National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons
(NAPTIP) said it had engaged some local witchdoctors in Benin, Edo State
as ambassadors in fighting human trafficking in the country.
The NAPTIP Director General (DG), Ms Julie Okah-Donli, disclosed this
at a symposium for the agency’s officials in Abuja yesterday. Edo State
has the highest number of traffickers and victims of
human trafficking
in the country. Okah-Donli said investigations revealed that some local witch-doctors were involved or used in the trafficking of persons to
Europe.
She said: “When we gathered these witch-doctors recently to sensitize
them on what human trafficking victims go through in Europe, they were
shocked.
“And they have made their commitments to work with us to fight the
menace of human trafficking.” Okah-Donli said that the agency would
involve and sensitise more witchdoctors in Edo State and other parts of
the country and make them NAPTIP ambassadors in fighting human
trafficking.
The DG, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), added that
once human traffickers got a victim’s consent by force, fraud or
coercion, such person would be made to take oath of secrecy and
allegiance before a local witchdoctor in a shrine.
According to her, some rituals are performed on the victim where her
urine, pubic hair, finger nails, eye lashes, menstrual blood, underwear
and other personal effects are collected.
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