OFFENCES CREATED IN THE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (PROHIBITION) LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 2015 TOWARDS THE FIGHT AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Trafficking of humans, especially of children and women into exploitative sexual and commercial labour, has attracted local, national and international concern from persons of different strata. This is against the back drop of the fact that trafficking of women and children has a number of far-reaching socio-economic, health and political consequences. The Nigerian Government has expressed its commitment to prevent and suppress trafficking in human beings through a number of laws and policies including the enactment, in 2015, of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Law Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015.1 It is however doubtful whether the 2015 Act and other legal regimes and policies put in place to curb the menace of human trafficking have provided the convenient or adequate platform needed to undertake that onerous task for several reasons.