Human trafficking: Police rescues 2 teenage girls, arrests abductor
Police authorities in Ogun State have rescued two teenage victims of human trafficking from Kaduna State.
According to Channels Television report, the police public relations officer, in Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi the suspected trafficking kingpin, Comfort Innoce confessed that the two girls had been taken to Kaduna State from where they will be transported to Libya.
He said the arrest of the suspect followed a report by one Oluwaseun Aduratola and one Sakirat Fasasi both residents of Siun town in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state who reported that the suspect abducted their daughters namely Blessing Aduratola 15 and Hasisat Fasasi 16.
They further explained that the suspect who is a notorious human trafficker is about taking the two girls to Libya where they will be forced into prostitution.
The police spokesperson added that following this, the Divisional Police Officer, Owode Egba division Mathew Ediae swung into action with his detectives, and through intelligence-driven investigation, they succeeded in arresting the 35- year old suspect.
He said that on interrogation, the suspect confessed been a human trafficker and that she has been into the business for a long time.
“She confessed further that her husband is based in Italy while she stays in Nigeria recruiting young girls and sending them to her husband in Italy en route Libya where they will be used as prostitutes.