The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons has disclosed that about 60 per cent of female hawkers in Italy are Nigerian girls.

The disclosure was made on Wednesday February 2, by NAPTIP Director, Training and Manpower Development, Mr Orakwue Arinze, during a two-day training tagged, ‘Vulnerable Women and Victims of Domestic Violence’, which was organised by the agency in conjunction with Joshuel Global Ventures Limited and held in Sabon Gari, Zaria.

Describing the situation as not only pathetic but “highly unacceptable”, the agency noted that the federal government has already done its best by enacting a law in 2015 on violence against persons and criminalising the act.

He said;

“Unless all hands are put on deck to guide parents and the larger society on the dangers of human trafficking and violence against women, the lives of our younger female children will continue to be in danger.”

Arinze also urged state governments and individuals to partner with the agency to rid the society of the menace.