VOICE AIR MEDIA News Update
Detectives in Osun State Police Command have arrested a man, Adebisi Muideen, for allegedly trafficking four teenage girls from Osun State to Kano State enroute Tripoli in Libya.
This was disclosed by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Yemisi Opalola on Monday, April 10.
VOICE AIR MEDIA (VAM News) learnt that the suspect invited the young girls for a birthday party in a hotel in Ile-Ife and gave them food and drinks.
“After taking the food and drinks, the girls slept off and later woke up in Kano sState en route to Tripoli, capital of Libya.
“However, three of the girls escaped miraculously in Kano and called their parents who reported the matter to police,” the PPRO stated.
She said that three of the girls had been reunited with their families while the whereabouts of the fourth girl had yet to be known at the time of filing this report.
During interrogation, the suspect reportedly said that the girls willingly accepted to go to Libya to work.
He said his brother, who resides in Tripoli, instructed him to get girls for him and send them to a man in Kano who would take them to Libya from there.
The suspect said when he got to the man’s house in Kano, he met so many girls that were being processed for the journey to Libya.
SP Opalola said that the case would be diligently investigated and charged to court at the completion of the investigation.
In a related story, on The Nigeria Immigration Service has arrested and paraded one Nweke Simon who specializes in trafficking teenagers mostly girls to other African Countries.
Nweke Simon was alleged to have masterminded the smuggling of Yetunde Oloyede and Oyinlola Olalekan who are fifteen years old each to Mali.
Parading the suspect in Osogbo, Osun State Controller of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Bewaji Abolupe said the suspect was arrested on the 29th of March.
According to her, the victims were exported for prostitution business unknowingly to Mali
Bewaji Abolupe said the suspect, Nweke Simon confirmed in his statement that he got 50,000 naira each on the victims.
She said efforts are underway to repatriate the victims.
Nweke Simon speaks on his involvement but denied allegation that he sold the girls.
The suspect was immediately handed over to the National Agency for the prohibition of Trafficking in Persons NAPTIP for prosecution.