The Executive Director- General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP), Julie Okah-Donli, said human trafficking has assumed a dangerous dimension of organ harvesting across the globe, where victims are daily murdered in the process of extracting their vital organs and body parts for sale.
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Okah-Donli expressed her worry about this trend while speaking at a meeting she had with Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode at Alausa on Thursday.
The NAPTIP DG while lamenting the situation stated that it became necessary to partner stakeholders to tackle the menace.
She said: “No one is safe anymore from the claws of human traffickers. Human trafficking has gone beyond the usual sexual and labour exploitation. Traffickers now kill and harvest their victims’ organs.
“This gives the trafficking gangs better and quick profits than sexual and labour exploitation.”
Okah-Donli urged the Lagos state government to tighten the noose on traffickers saying the state was either destination or transit point for them.
According to her: “Due to Lagos State proximity to major airports, seaports and land borders, it is sadly endemic in human trafficking as it is a source, transit and destination state for human trafficking activities.”
