US embassy cable - 04ABUJA1839

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NIGERIA: REPORT ON TIP DEMARCHE

Identifier: 04ABUJA1839
Wikileaks: View 04ABUJA1839 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Abuja
Created: 2004-11-01 12:08:00
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Tags: PGOV PHUM PREF KCRM SMIG NI KREF
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

UNCLAS ABUJA 001839 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV, PHUM, PREF, KCRM, SMIG, NI, KREF 
SUBJECT: NIGERIA: REPORT ON TIP DEMARCHE 
 
REF: STATE 197722 
 
1.  (U) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Minister 
of Justice Akin Olujimi on November 1 at the Minister's 
office.  Also present were Dr. C. J. Amasike, Special 
Assistant to the Minister, Carol Ndaguba, Executive 
Secretary of the National Agency for the Prohibition of 
 
SIPDIS 
Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP), and Shadrach Haruna, Head of 
Prosecution, NAPTIP.  CongenOff served as notetaker. 
 
2.  (SBU) The Minister said Nigeria would have a good story 
to tell regarding progress in combating trafficking in 
persons for the interim assessment.  He noted that a major 
trafficking conviction is expected November 18 in Benin 
State.  He expressed gratitude for the longer-term strategy 
to improve Nigeria's ranking. 
 
3.  (SBU) In a subsequent one-on-one meeting, the Minister 
thanked the Ambassador for the specificity of both the 
questions for the interim assessment and the recommended 
actions of the longer-term strategy.  He said, "We thought 
we were doing so much, and we could not figure out what we 
still needed to do."  The minister was fascinated by the 
list of Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 countries from the State 
Department website.  He said Nigeria could certainly reach 
Tier 2 for the 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report.  He added 
that his goal was for Nigeria to be a Tier 1 country by the 
time the Ambassador left Post. 
 
CAMPBELL 

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