Since inception, the agency have investigated over ten thousand cases of human trafficking and prosecuted about five hundred defaulters.[1] Between 2003 and 2017, they convicted over 331 human traffickers and rescued about 3000 victims from Libya and other places.[2][3] Senator Basheer Mohammed took over from Mrs Imaan Suleiman Ibrahim as the Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in May, 2021.[6] In September, 2021, Senator Basheer Mohammed was replaced by Fatima Waziri-Azi.[7]