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Five suspected quality traffickers person been arrested by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking successful Persons (NAPTIP) astatine the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
NAPTIP Director General, Binta Adamu Bello led the peculiar cognition connected Wednesday wherever 24 quality trafficking victims were besides rescued.
NAPTIP’s spokesman, Vincent Adekoye said successful a connection that an unnamed retired elder information serviceman was among the arrested suspects.
The precocious illustration fishy was allegedly said to beryllium a salient subordinate of the trafficking syndicate operating wrong the South-West states.
NAPTIP said the cognition was a continuation of the recently unveiled anti-human trafficking efforts and onslaught against quality trafficking by the DG, targeting recruitment hubs, trafficking spots, and routes wrong Nigeria.
Bello besides ordered accrued surveillance and monitoring of each parts of the state with greater attraction connected centrifugal parks, waterways successful the coaster states arsenic good arsenic planetary airports.
The latest raid followed a tip-off from acrophobic stakeholders and partners who alerted the bureau connected influx of suspected quality trafficking victims astatine the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, and the unwholesome activities of immoderate suspected traffickers.
“At the extremity of astir 6 hours of operation, the quality trafficking activities were wholly disrupted, starring to the apprehension of 5 suspected traffickers and the rescue of 24 suspected victims,” Adekoye said successful the statement.
He said the victims, whose ages scope betwixt 15 years to 26 years were recruited from Kano, Kastina, Oyo, Ondo and Rivers States.
“The victims were heading to Iraq, Sudan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Afghanistan,” helium explained.
Adekoye said portion a bully fig of the victims could not pass successful immoderate different connection isolated from their section dialect, others bash not adjacent cognize their intended state of destination.
“They told my parent that they are taking maine to Europe, wherever I volition enactment and gain dollars. My genitor were blessed and they allowed maine to travel them”, 1 of them said.
One of the victims vowed to guarantee the prosecution of her begetter for deceiving her into embarking connected the journey.
This was aft the DG counseled the victims and enlightened them with a bid of video clips of immoderate stranded Nigerians and those connected beingness enactment aft being exploited astatine the destination Countries.
The unfortunate said, “I struggled to clasp my emotions portion watching the video of those girls who were being maltreated and beaten by the traffickers. If that is what awaits maine there, I volition not go. I americium earnestly annoyed with my begetter due to the fact that helium deceived me.
The NAPTIP DG expressed sadness implicit the activities of immoderate suspected quality traffickers and unregistered labour recruiters who person continued to deceive, recruit, and postulation Nigerians for assorted forms of exploitation.
“I americium impressed with the result of the cognition contiguous due to the fact that we were capable to apprehension 5 suspected members of the trafficking pack that person been recruiting and trafficking our citizens to assorted tension-soaked countries, particularly successful the Middle East, for exploitation,” the DG said.
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