The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 35-year-old woman, Comfort Innocent, who is suspected to be a human trafficker, for kidnapping and trafficking two teenage girls.
Eko Hot Blog gathers that the victims are Blessing Aduratola (15) and Hasisat Fasasi (16).
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident, said the arrest followed a report made by the girls’ mothers to the police in Obafemi Owode area of the state.
They told the police that the suspect who is a notorious human trafficker is about taking the girls to Libya where they will be forced into prostitution.
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Oyeyemi said, while interrogating the suspect, she confessed to being a human trafficker and has been in 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,” the PPRO explained.
He said the victims she recently kidnapped were rescued from Kaduna State where they were held and intended to be transported to Libya.
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