- Nezan said offenses were categorized under corruption, divided loyalty, sabotage and gross indiscipline, contrary to the civil service regulations National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related offenses (NAPTIP) has sacked six officials for making love advances to female victims, collecting bribes and other unethical conducts. The Punch reports the head of public relations, Stella Nezan, confirmed the incident in a statement on Thursday, September 20, noting that the attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, Abubakar Malami, approved the dismissal of the six officials. Nezan said: “The AGF has approved the dismissal of six officers of NAPTIP, one compulsory retirement and sanctioning of two others for various offenses that were inimical to the operations of the agency. “The latest action was the peak of a series of internal disciplinary measures taken in strict compliance with the provisions of the civil service rules and other extant labour laws. “The offenses committed by them included collection of bribes, aiding the escape of suspects and making love advances to potential victims of trafficking as a condition for rendering services to them. “The offenses were categorized under corruption, divided loyalty, sabotage and gross indiscipline, contrary to the civil service regulations.” Another worker was compulsorily retired and two others sanctioned for committing “various offenses that were inimical to the operations of the agency.”
The agency, in letters issued to the officials, said other reasons for their dismissal included providing information about the agency’s operations to outsiders for a fee, thereby endangering the lives of NAPTIP operatives.
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They were also reported to have aided the escape of suspects from custody. The NAPTIP director-general, Julie Okah-Donli, said the decision to sack the officials was a difficult but necessary step for the authorities, noting that such would serve as a deterrent to others. Okah-Donli said: “I am sad over the situation, but laid down procedures must be followed. The agency is very important, not only to the Nigerian government, but the global community and we cannot afford to do anything less. I believe that other officers will learn from this development.” Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that the Benin zonal command of the NAPTIP arrested eight suspected human traffickers. The zonal commander, Nduka Nwanwenne, said the traffickers were arrested in the past three months. He said that a total of 138 people were rescued by the agency within the period and that 124 of the trafficked people were already reunited with their families.
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