Saturday, 9 January 2016

Suspected female human trafficker captured with 4 casualties

The Lagos State Government on Friday night secured a suspected human trafficker, who recognized herself as Ganiat Ajijola, 35, at Abule-Egba region of the state.

Mr Femi Malik, an authority of the state Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, who made this known not News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos, said the service followed up on a tip off.


Malik said that the service had requested the help of the Police Rapid Response Squad at the state Secretariat in Alausa, to capture the suspect.

He claimed that the associate was in the process with trafficking four young ladies to Libya, when she was captured with the casualties.

The authority said that the suspect admitted that her madam had taken her to Libya in 2010 to work in her shop as a beautician.

Ajijola, who guaranteed to have come back from Libya a month prior, said she reached the young ladies and had made game plan to take them to Abeokuta to acquire worldwide travel papers.

Malik told NAN that the mother of one of the casualties blacked out when she learnt of the capture of her little girl and had been raced to the doctor's facility.

Likewise, the father of one of the casualties, who recognized himself as Apostle Ogundeko, said a man he appealed to God for in his congregation offered to help his 16 year-old girl, Olabisi to travel abroad.

Ogundeko guaranteed that he was told his girl, who is a tailorwould be taken to Germany where she would work and go to class.

He said he was stunned to discover that his little girl was being taken to Libya after he had paid N15, 000 for her medicinal registration and the universal visa.

NAN reports that the suspect and the casualties, and in addition other captured regarding the matter had been given over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for further examination.

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