The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons ,NAPTIP has said that about 60 per cent of female hawkers in Italy are Nigerians.
NAPTIP Director, Training and Manpower Development, Mr Orakwue Arinze disclosed this on Wednesday at a two-day training tagged, ‘Vulnerable Women and Victims of Domestic Violence’.
Describing the situation as not only pathetic but “highly unacceptable”, the agency noted that the federal government has already done its best by enacting a law in 2015 on violence against persons and criminalising the act.
He said; “Unless all hands are put on deck to guide parents and the larger society on the dangers of human trafficking and violence against women, the lives of our younger female children will continue to be in danger.”
Arinze also urged state governments and individuals to partner with the agency to rid the society of the menace.
