The United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) has donated wildlife monitoring and enforcement equipment to the Federal Government in a bid to bring an end to wildlife trafficking from Nigeria.

UNODC presented that equipment to the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, which is an organisation of the Federal Government in charge of combating wildlife trafficking from Nigeria.

The Director-General of the Agency, Professor ALIYU JAURO while receiving the equipment in Abuja noted that the provision of real-time equipment would greatly enhance wildlife monitoring, investigation, intelligence gathering, enforcement, evidence collection, data generation, data management and transmission.

He stated that the government was taking all the necessary steps to rid the country of wildlife crimes, as the recent destruction of seized wildlife stockpiles was intended to discourage perpetrators of the crime.

He added that Nigeria had put in place the necessary checks at the borders in the bid to frustrate the activities of those who seek to use the country as a transit hub for illegal shipment of controlled wildlife and their products.

He expressed appreciation to the UNODC and stated that the gadgets would be deployed to the zonal and state field offices of the agency, particularly those areas identified as hotspots for traffickers.