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$1m to combat human trafficking
10/08/2005 09:20 - (SA)
Abuja - The United States Agency for International Development (Usaid) is to assist Nigeria with $1m to prosecute offenders in the war against human trafficking, US diplomat Bill Murad said on Tuesday in Lagos.
Murad said the money was to "support and reintegrate victims of trafficking, to promote public awareness and to improve the capacity of the police and immigration officials to detect, investigate and prosecute traffickers".
Murad, an economic/political officer at the US embassy in Nigeria, said his country's department of labour was working with the International Labour Organisation and the Cocoa Global Issues Group, an international non-governmental organisation, to stem the use of children for hazardous work on cocoa plantations.
"Very recently, the embassy, through its small grants fund was able to commit $18 000 to assisting small non-governmental organisations in educating people on the evil of human trafficking and child labour in their communities," he said.
He explained that the $1m assistance to Nigeria would be spent mainly on education on the evils of human trafficking. - Sapa-dpa
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