The Security Implications of Child Trafficking In Nigeria: The Interventions of NAPTIP

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue XII, December 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186

The Security Implications of Child Trafficking In Nigeria: The Interventions of NAPTIP

 AKINPELU, Ibrahim Lanre¹, OJO Solomon Ayantayo², ADEGOKE Olusegun Steve³, AKANMU, Rahman Opeyemi^4
1Department of Governance and Public Policy, Centre for Strategic Research and Studies, National Defence College, Abuja, Nigeria
²Southwestern University, Okun-Owa, Ogun State, Nigeria
³International Psychometric Centre, Nigeria, South-West Zonal Office, Ibadan, Nigeria
⁴Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

Abstract: This study investigated child trafficking, its security implications and the role of NAPTIP in Nigeria. The research design adopted in the study was an archival survey design. Data were sourced from NAPTIP zonal offices for the data analysis using quantitative approach. The data were presented in tables and charts to showcase the outcomes of the research findings. The results showed that child trafficking has become a societal problem with negative implications for security that needed concerted efforts from both the agency in control of human trafficking and the people in every society. The trends and patterns of child trafficking are very complex and posed various challenges that are identified in the study. Conclusions, implication of findings and recommendations were established. However, Nigeria government should proactively harness all security outfits to share some of the NAPTIP responsibilities among others such as Immigrations, Customs, NSCDC, Police and Nigerian Armed forces synergistically to end child trafficking in our borders.

I. INTRODUCTION

Background to the Study

By most accounts, human trafficking in whatever form is one of the heinous crimes of the 21st Century, as observers liken it to a modern form of slave trade. Human rights activists, among other observers, maintain that human trafficking has become a global menace, particularly in the last decade, forcing many countries, including Nigeria, to initiate measures to combat it. Human beings, the articles of the illicit trade, are trafficked within countries or to overseas countries for the purposes of cheap labour or as sex slaves. Over the years, human trafficking has burgeoned into frightening proportions across the world, as concerned observers note that no country or region of the world is spared from the menace. However, like other global challenges, such as Covid-19, the world is tackling the menace of human trafficking headlong. In Nigeria, for instance, the crusade against human trafficking garnered appreciable momentum since the country became signatory to the Transnational Organised Crime Convention and Trafficking in Persons Protocol in December 2000 (UNCTOC, 2010).

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