BY: Justice Godfry
The DG of NAPTIP, Dame Julie Okah-Donli, today met with the the Chairman and Chief Executive officer of Air Peace Ltd, Chief Allen Onyema, to express the Agency’s appreciation to the organisation, and especially to the Crew on the Lagos-Banjul flight P47560 who foiled the attempted trafficking of a three-month old baby boy by two Nigerian women.
The crew, sensing something was amiss, alerted the airport authorities in Banjul, and with the help of the National Agency Against Trafficking In Persons (NAATIP), Gambia, the women were arrested on arrival.
The DG said that such acts could only be as a result of the professional trainings, values and culture imbued by the organisation on their officers, and opined that if all the stakeholders in the transport business would act like Air Peace, human traffickers will not have any means of moving the victims from one location to another.
Chief Allen Onyema pledged to give the Agency the desired support and partnership, promising to contribute to the adequate rehabilitation of victims of human trafficking through the provision of employment for them.
The Captain of the Flight and crew members were presented with medals of honour as Anti-human trafficking ambassadors.