Edo remains a hotspot for sexual exploitation — NAPTIP

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking successful Persons, NAPTIP, says Edo State remains a hotspot for intersexual exploitation.

The bureau besides said that labour trafficking and organ harvesting person continued to thrive successful the country.

DAILY POST reports that Mr Sam Offiah, Zonal Commander of NAPTIP successful Benin, stated this connected Tuesday, April 14, 2026, during a grooming for Parent-Teacher Association, PTA, executives from 40 schools successful Edo State.

Offiah, represented by Mrs Joy Ojiewa, Head of NAPTIP’s Public Enlightenment Unit, noted that traffickers had go much sophisticated, shifting from street-level recruitment to calculated approaches that exploit spot wrong families.

He warned that traffickers person present deployed fake scholarships, fraudulent occupation offers, sextortion, online recruitment and babe factories to lure unsuspecting victims.

According to him, trafficking feeds connected poverty, ignorance and the hunt for amended opportunities, adding that criminals are present targeting parents directly, utilizing deception to summation entree to children.

He opined that prevention, driven by awareness, remained the astir effectual response, alongside protection, prosecution, concern and policing.

In her remarks, Ms Daniella Ige, Junior Project Officer for School Anti-Human Trafficking Education and Advocacy, ...