The Executive Director of Adinya Arise Foundation (AAF), Mabel Adinya Ade has called for an international coalition against human trafficking to confront modern day slavery in Nigeria.
In a statement to mark the 2025 World Day Against Trafficking, Ade said traffickers have grown more deceptive and sophisticated, using fake promises of education, employment, and care.
“The perpetrators exploit poverty, ignorance, displacement, insecurity, and widening ungoverned spaces, while laws and preventive mechanisms remain either absent or weakly enforced,” she said.
While calling on the coalition of civil society, media, private sector, faith-based organizations, and donors, Ade said Nigeria needs a comprehensive legal and institutional framework to break the chain of human trafficking and protect the dignity and rights of every citizen.
“Children are being stolen and sold,women and girls are trafficked for sex slavery and forced labour, baby factories imprison young women, and most horrifically, lives are being destroyed for organ harvesting.”
Through an advocacy under the USAID Palladium SCALE Counter Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) Project, she noted that Taraba State passed the Prohibition Against Human Trafficking Bill into law, and in Benue State, the Bill has passed through second reading.
Specifically, the Foundation made the following recommendations:
The Federal and State Ministries of Women Affairs and Social Development must scale up prevention, rescue, rehabilitation, and reintegration frameworks.
🟦 NAPTIP needs adequate funding and political support to expand its reach and strengthen coordination across states.
🟦 The Ministry of Justice, at federal and state levels, must push for stronger legislation, prosecution of offenders, and implementation of victim-centered justice systems.
🟦 Law enforcement, immigration, judiciary, health and social workers need capacity-building and trauma-informed tools to handle victims compassionately and effectively.
🟦 A well-functioning inter-agency referral network must be established and monitored.
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It is a noble call for a justifiable intervention and an adequate remedy for the dignity of human values and essence of meaningful existence. Enough of all these man inhumanity to man, striving on innocent minds with promises of unknown treasures hidden and enveloped with high level of mediocrity orchestrated by wickedness.