About 60 percent of female hawkers in Italy are Nigerians, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking has revealed.
The situation is not only pathetic but “highly unacceptable.”
The NAPTIP Director, Training and Manpower Development, Mr Orakwue Arinze disclosed this during a two-day training tagged, ‘Vulnerable Women and Victims of Domestic Violence’, which was organised by the agency in conjunction with Joshuel Global Ventures Limited and held in Sabon Gari, Zaria.
“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,” he said.
Arinze said the federal government has enancted a law in 2015 on violence against persons and criminalising the act.
He urged state governments and individuals to partner with the agency to rid the society of the menace.
The director also lauded the efforts of a federal lawmaker Garba Datti Babawo (Sabon Gari, APC) for sponsoring the training of 300 women as part of his constituency project.
