The Association of Civil Society Organizations Working on Anti-human Trafficking in Kano state has urged the united nations run agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to replicate the build Lagos-like shelter for human trafficking victims in Kano state.
The coordinator of the organization Muhammad Ali Mashi disclosed this while briefing journalist shortly after a meeting with all the civil society organizations held in Kano.
According to him, the meeting is aimed recapping the meeting held with IOM on the dangers of illegal migration and anti-human trafficking in Kano state.
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“In the meeting with IOM we talks about high rate of Kano indigenes that have been rescued in other countries around the world that need to be brought back home, and we talk about how we will settled them down, how we support them, how we re-integrate them as well as linked them with the essential services that they may require,” said Mashi.
“But before we do that, we need a standard shelter that will accommodate them, remember that they should not be merged with the conventional orphans or displaced people here, that why we are urging the IOM to replicate the same center that they have already constructed in Legos here in Kano, because in Kano we don’t have the shelter that will accommodate at-least one thousands people in Kano, and in Kano we don’t have any standard shelter, even if we have it is sub-standard and is dilapidated,” said coordinator.
In a remark, the executive director of one of the leading civil society in fighting human trafficking in Kano Hajiya Zainab Ahmad Suleiman said fighting human trafficking require mult-dimensional approach, adding that state and non-state actors need to put head together to achieve the set targets.
Mrs Suleiman who chairs Community Support and Development Initiatives (CSADI) said the group focused on bringing all stakeholders in the fight against human trafficking in Kano together so as to work as a team in curtailing the menace.
“On the issue of construction of standard shelter, IOM cannot do it alone, it has to be with the support of the state government, and Kano state governor is already supporting this movement and any other anti-trafficking issues, so i am sure, and by Allah’s willing, we will achieve our targets,” said the executive director.
She then urged parents to stop their children from traveling other countries in search of green-pasture, saying many people find themselves, traumatized, experience physical damage, disability or even killed in the process.