Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, have taken the campaign against human trafficking to students of the University of Abuja.
Speaking to newsmen on the sidelines of the campaign, the Director-General of NAPTIP, Julie Donli-Okah, said the event created an opportunity for the agency to engage directly with the undergraduates on the issue of trafficking in persons.
According to her, a lot of youths have fallen victims in the past to human traffickers who exploited their ignorance on the issue. Tonto-Dikeh Donli-Okah, represented by the Director Public Education, Mr Arinze Orakwue, said: “The Tonto Dikeh Foundation has ushered a very important week for the commemoration of the 2018 World Day Against Trafficking in Persons.
The actress has provided platform for us to speak to one of the largest groups we are targeting. “Basically, the aim of the campaign is to raise voices and increase the conversation around human trafficking which is a clear and present danger affecting our best and brightest minds, the youths. “The plan we have is to continue to push the frontiers of the conversation around human trafficking because, till today, a lot of youths are acting out of ignorance.
Some people are ignorant and that’s why they were trafficked in the first place. “We are also working closely with the student unions to set-up a NAPTIP club on campus to ensure that the campaign is sustained beyond this event. “We want to drive the message against human trafficking to the streets, homes, communities as well as nooks and cranny of Nigeria.” Other celebrities who accompanied the popular actress to the campus campaign include: Toyin Abraham, Bobrisky, Styl Plus, Halima Abubakar among others.
