Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Bisi Fayemi, has called on the Federal Government agency in charge of human trafficking to consider establishing its office in the state.
Mrs Fayemi said on Monday that the call was due to urgency required sometimes to save trafficked persons.
At a lecture on human trafficking in Ado-Ekiti to mark the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) week, Fayemi said an office of human trafficking in the state would reduce bureaucracy and make interventions faster and easier in the fight to end human trafficking and modern-day slavery.
She warned Ekiti residents not to obstruct law enforcement agencies in cases of human trafficking and other sex-related offences.
“Anyone who begs on behalf or follow human traffickers and sex offenders to the police station to beg on their behalf should be detained with the culprits,” Fayemi said.
Chairperson of FIDA, Funke Anoma, said that the FIDA week was intended to sensitise and create awareness on the menace of human trafficking.
She called on government and its agencies as well as individuals especially parents to be alert to their obligations, to ensure that no child, woman or girl is enslaved in this modern age.
Commissioner of Justice and Attorney General of the state, Wale Fapohunda, said the ministry was ready to support and promote the work to ensure that there was zero tolerance for domestic violence, rape and child defilement.
