LCCI tasks govt to tackle illegal migration through employment

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has urged the Nigerian government to address factors that drive irregular migrants on dangerous journeys through the creation of jobs and infrastructure that support entrepreneurship, adequate security and vocational skill training opportunities.

There is an estimated profit of $150billion yearly from about 25 million people exploited by human traffickers.

The chamber noted that human trafficking is a challenge of extraordinary proportions which causes a major humanitarian crisis, if not urgently and adequately addressed.

This, the LCCI said, reinforces the need for critical reforms in the establishment of effective mechanisms that would minimise the incidence of human trafficking in Nigeria.

The chamber stated this at the partnership with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Person (NAPTIP) to commemorate the World Day Against Trafficking in person themed, Victim’s Voices Leads The Way.

The President of LCCI, Mrs Toki Mabogunje, said that trafficked Nigerian women and men are recruited from rural areas within the country’s border for involuntary domestic servitude with Nigeria being the source and transit for the destination of women and children subjected to trafficking in person for forced labour and forced prostitution. (VON)