The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) is unhappy over the slow pace in the implementation of policies to tackle human trafficking.The sub-regional body said unless member-states took steps to implement the policies, human trafficking in the sub-region would continue to increase.

Mrs. Chioma Nwana of Social Affairs and Gender Department, ECOWAS, expressed the disgust at the First Africa Regional Conference of the Santa Marta Group in collaboration with the Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria (CCFN), on Wednesday in Abuja.