National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons,NAPTIP, says it would now focus on the younger ones in the fight against human trafficking.

Its Acting Zonal Coordinator for Edo and Delta, Nosa Mamman-Odey said this in Benin at a ceremony to mark the 2017 World Day Against Human Trafficking.

Mamman-Odey said traffickers usually carried out their recruitment of victims from one point to the other and that they mostly targeted the younger ones.

She said in view of this, the Agency had decided to shift focus and concentrate more on sensitising the younger ones on the ills of being trafficked.

Mamman-Odey said there were two types of human trafficking which she described as internal and external human trafficking.

She said most victims were usually lured and deceived with the external type of human trafficking, where they were promised greener pastures abroad.

The NAPTIP zonal coordinator said the time was ripe for the younger ones to be brought abreast of the deceit of traffickers, with a view to curbing the anxiety of younger ones to travel abroad.

In his remarks, Chairman of the occasion, Nosakhare Erhunwunsee, appreciated the Agency for their zeal in the fight against human trafficking.

Erhunwunsee said the event was timely as Nigeria as a country accounted for sixty per cent of recorded human trafficking, while Edo was responsible for eighty per cent of the sixty per cent, saying in Libya alone, there were about 48 cabals operating in human trafficking and child abuse.

He, therefore, urged the government, stakeholders and the public to join hands with NAPTIP in the fight against human trafficking and child abuse.