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ABSTRACT
Over the years, human trafficking which involves the trafficking of people especially young and able bodied people for forced labour and prostitution has become a recurrent problem in Nigeria human trafficking has been an endemic social problem in Edo State in which the state alone constitute about 46 percentage of human trafficking in Nigeria. It was in an attempt to tackle to tackle the menace of human trafficking in Nigeria that the Federal government established National Agency for the Prohibition of traffic in persons and other related matters (NAPTIP) in 2003. The agency is saddled with the onerous responsibility of investigating and persecuting offenders of this heinous crime. On this note, this study has assessed the role of the agency in combating human trafficking in Nigeria with special focus on Edo State which is notorious and endemic hub for human trafficking in Nigeria. This study has identified the root causes of human trafficking tits social and economic consequence in Edo State. It has also examined the strategies adopted by National Agency for the Prohibition of traffic in persons and other related matters in combating the menace as well as the challenges the agency has faced in carrying out its statutory responsibilities. This has established that successes recorded so far by (NAPTIP) have been the collaborative efforts of other stakeholders such as the European Union, (EU) International Organization for Migration (IOM), Non-government organizations, civil society groups, local non-government organizations as well as the traditional institution of Benin, the Oba and his chiefs in the fight against the scourge. Despite several efforts by the government in collaboration with local and international non-governmental organizations, humanitarian and civil society organizations, human trafficking is still to be totally eradicated.
