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Witch Doctors to Fight Human Trafficking
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, has engaged the services of local witch doctors in Benin, Edo State to curb trafficking in persons.
According to a report by The Punch newspaper, the Director-General of NAPTIP, Julie Okah-Donli, disclosed this at a symposium for the agency’s officials in Abuja on Monday.
“When we gathered these witch doctors recently to sensitise 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,” the Okah-Donli said.
Edo indigenes, particularly the women, reportedly started migrating to Italy in the early 1990s for greener pastures and majority were engaged in prostitution. It became a thriving business for them and they started creating cartels all over Europe.
She said the agency would involve and sensitise more witch doctors in Edo and other parts of the country and make them NAPTIP ambassadors in fighting human trafficking.
Millions of Nigerian young people are vulnerable to human trafficking as a result of insurgency, communal crises, poverty, maltreatment at home, family crisis, and unemployment.
Recently, NAPTIP said it evacuated more than 13, 000 Nigerian migrants from Libya between November 2017 and January 2018.
Devatop Centre for Africa Development (DCAD), a nonprofit organisation with focus on combating human trafficking, estimates that over 27 million women, girls, men, and boys are currently victims of human trafficking across the globe. Full Story
Witch Doctors to Fight Human Trafficking
Okah-Donli lamented that the state has a high prevalence of human trafficking in the country and added that some local witch doctors were involved in the trafficking of persons to Europe according to investigations. “When we gathered these witch doctors recently to sensitise 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,” she said. Okah-Donli said once human traffickers get a victim’s consent by force, fraud or coercion, such a person would be made to take the oath of secrecy before a local witch doctor in a shrine. She said some rituals are performed on the victims, using their urine, pubic hair, fingernails, eyelashes, menstrual blood, underwear and other personal effects to serve as a bond between the victims and the traffickers. “In spite of the rituals and oath-taking, the victim reaches the destination point only to realise the farce behind the sweet promises of a greener pasture.
And in this circumstance, such person is told in strict terms not to renege on the oath of secrecy, as it cannot be reversed,” she said. Full Story
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