By Hadiza Yusuf
Kano State receives returned migrants almost every week, with stakeholders warning that the state’s location along major migration routes exposes many young people to irregular migration, human trafficking and forced labour.
The Project Manager of the Adolescent Health and Information Project (AHIP) ROOTS Programme, Halima Kasim Usman, disclosed this on Thursday during the second quarterly review meeting of the programme’s Technical Working Group in Kano.
Usman said Kano had become an important transit and return point for migrants travelling to and from other African countries, making it necessary for stakeholders to strengthen efforts to promote safe and legal migration.
“Kano is actually a migration route. People pass through Kano to go to all these neighbouring African countries, and almost every week these migrants are returned to Kano,” she said.
