 The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, says it is worried by the trend of trafficking of young Nigerian women to the Middle East. Representative of the Director-General of NAPTIP, Hajara Tundiosho, said this at the opening of a capacity-building workshop for community-based women-led organizations. The problem of human trafficking and irregular migration has become of great national concern, especially with a large number of Nigerians trapped in sexual and labor exploitation in various African and European countries, even internally. Between March 2020 and February 2021, NAPTIP was involved in the repatriation of close to 2,000 young women from domestic and sexual servitude from the Middle Eastern countries. Now the organizers of the training say they hope to strengthen the capacity of women-led groups to carry out the mandate effectively. So it's important that we need to keep talking about it, need sensitizing them about it, so that they also become aware of the gimmicks, of the tricks, and all the new tactics and strategies that traffickers are employing these days to lure young girls. As participants echo the need for enlightenment at the grassroots, the role of the government in community-based organizations are also emphasized. NAPTIP is trying, but it needs to be a lot of, you know, we need to put our mouth where our money is in terms of providing all that is needed. You cannot deal with the issue of trafficking without providing adequate funding, which is what we found out that there are issues for insides where there are protection services. The funds needed to deal with this issue is lacking, so the government needs to do quite a lot more in that regard. And also, putting in place, we have a lot of beautiful legislations, but implementation is always the problem. And so we need to also build the capacity of all our critical stakeholders, whether it's from the community, law enforcement, to understand these legislative frameworks that exist, how they are supposed to use them. There have been a lot of awareness creation. There seems to be at the upper level. There are so many people at the grassroots in the villages, rural areas who are not aware of this menace. And what we really need to do is to go into those interiors, because that is where those victims are really picked from. Our community journey looks to meet up with a lot of things, because people crossing from the border, that's neighboring country, that's depending. A lot of activities has been going on there, a lot of check-in needs to be done. And all, it is agreed that human trafficking represents a clear and present danger to life and national security, and it must be addressed broadly and frontally.