Saturday, November 8, 2025 - The Jigawa Command of the National Agency for the
Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, says it has rescued 221 victims
of human trafficking in the state in two years.
The agency’s Commander in the state, Abdulladir Turajo,
disclosed this at a one-day sensitisation campaign against human trafficking in
Kazaure on Friday.
According to Turajo, the victims were rescued and reunited
with their respective families after the establishment of the command in July
2023.
He added that the command has also, within the period,
recorded two convictions and conducted 175 sensitization programmes in various
communities, schools, places of worship, motor parks and markets across the
state.
The exercise was organized in partnership with Jigawa State
Ministry for Local Government and Community Development.
The campaign is part of the aggressive zonal grassroots
sensitisation campaign for critical stakeholders in the 27 Local Government
Areas of the state, to be conducted in three phases.
According to the commander, the programme will be conducted
in three phases. The one held today (Friday) in Kazaure, being the first phase,
is for 12 LGAs from Jigawa Northwest.
“The second will be conducted in Hadejia for the eight LGAs
of Jigawa Northeast Zone, and the last in Dutse for the seven LGAs of Jigawa
Southwest Zone, respectively,” he said.
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