{"id":22195,"date":"2024-03-15T17:02:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/naptip-rescues-100-human-trafficking-victims-of-edo-delta-extraction\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T17:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T17:02:48","slug":"naptip-rescues-100-human-trafficking-victims-of-edo-delta-extraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/naptip-rescues-100-human-trafficking-victims-of-edo-delta-extraction\/","title":{"rendered":"NAPTIP rescues 100 human trafficking victims of Edo, Delta extraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, Edo Zone, rescued more than 100 victims of Edo and Delta extraction in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>NAPTIP\u2019s Zonal Commander, Mr Nduka Nwanwenne, made this known in Benin on Friday while presenting business starter packs to three survivors of human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>He said the agency is currently prosecuting more than 64 traffickers in various courts in the two states.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, empowerment was part of the agency\u2019s strategy for survivors to be reintegrated into the society and earn a living.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have many survivors to be empowered, but we have to empower these three first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe gave them sewing machines so that they could be engaged and would be able to give evidence in court against their traffickers,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the empowerment of the three survivors was critical because two of them had babies while the third was pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>Nwanwenne further stated that the survivors were trafficked to Germany, Russia and Mali respectively, where they were exploited by their traffickers for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that when they have a means of livelihood, they will not be vulnerable to trafficking,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>NAPTIP rescues 100 human trafficking victims of Edo, Delta extraction<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, Edo Zone, rescued more than 100 victims of Edo&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398,15],"tags":[2401,180],"class_list":["post-22195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naptip","category-news","tag-naptip","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}