Edo Govt Drafts Students Into Campaign Against Human Trafficking, Others

Edo State government, done the Ministry of Education, has partnered with the Mariam Ashley Yusuf (MAY) Foundation to motorboat a broad consciousness run aimed astatine curbing quality trafficking, irregular migration, intersexual exploitation and cause maltreatment among young people.

The initiative, successful enactment with Governor Monday Okpebholo’s SHINE Agenda, was unveiled astatine the John Odigie-Oyegun Public Service Academy (JOOPSA) successful Benin City.

It brought unneurotic students, teachers, corps members, parents, unions and cardinal agencies, including the Edo State Migration Agency, NAPTIP, IOM, NDLEA, Nigeria Police and assemblage representatives to fortify the combat against societal vices threatening the Edo child.

Founder of the MAY Foundation, Ambassador Mariam Ashley Yusuf, described the run arsenic a agreed effort to safeguard the dignity and aboriginal of Nigerian youth.

“Each time crossed Nigeria, countless young girls spot their futures disrupted and their dreams stolen by trafficking, abuse, and drugs,” she said. “These tragedies unfold successful our schools, our communities, and sometimes wrong our precise homes. They portion our children of innocence, destabilize our families, and rob our federation of its future.”

She besides unveiled her book, “Stolen Dream: A Nigerian Girl’s Journey done Sex Trafficking”, which tells the communicative of Enewa, a young miss from Benue State, arsenic a reflection of the broader nationalist situation of exploitation.

Also, the commissioner for Education, Dr. Paddy Iyamu, officially declared the run open, describing it arsenic timely.

“Education is not conscionable astir world performance; it is astir shaping liable citizens—the Edo Child. This run reinforces our resoluteness to safeguard the aboriginal of our children from predators and destructive habits,” Iyamu stated.

On behalf of the Office of the First Lady of Edo State, Mrs. Edesili Okpebholo Anani, stressed that prevention indispensable statesman with awareness, peculiarly successful schools.

“Human trafficking, intersexual exploitation and substance maltreatment are existent threats to the aboriginal of the Edo child. We judge that prevention begins with awareness, and that consciousness indispensable commencement successful schools,” she said.

The programme featured interactive sessions and unfastened discussions, wherever students learned applicable ways to recognise and defy exploitation.

On behalf of the students, Miss Obiageli Ofulue, expressed gratitude to the authorities authorities and the MAY Foundation for empowering them with courage, cognition and resilience to marque affirmative beingness choices.

Stakeholders astatine the lawsuit pledged to proceed spreading the run crossed schools and communities to guarantee its interaction goes beyond the classroom.