Human trafficking: Kebbi Immigration rescues three teenage girls going to Libya

Comptroller, Nigeria Immigration Service, Kebbi State Command, Mrs. Rabi Nuhu, has handed over three female teenagers being trafficked to Libya, to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).

The Comptroller said the three girls who were being conveyed in a commercial bus from Ondo State to Sokoto through Kebbi State were rescued on February 5, 2023, when they were intercepted at Yauir/ Koko border post by immigration personnel of the border patrol team.

She said that after the interrogation, they discovered that the victims; 17-year-old, miss Adewale Adekunle from Omoron council of Kwara State; 18-year-old Miss Rukiya Ageboye from Osun State, while 15-year-old miss Eynloa Akimat were going to meet a pastor of their school, Baptist High school in Ondo State, who asked them to come for a job in Libya.

“We discovered that the parents of the girls are not aware of their journey to Libya and they also confessed that a pastor asked them to do a day’s fasting for the success of their journey.

She assured that the agency would not fold its hands seeing people committing such crimes, as it will arrest and prosecute anyone found culpable.

The Representative of NAPTIP, Kebbi State, Sadiq Atiku who is the Head of Operation assured that, the agency would investigate the matter to a logical conclusion and unite the victims with their families.

One of the victims, Adekunle confess that, her parents are not aware of her journey to Libya while she promised to go back and meet her parents in Osun State.

“I am in SSS3 in Baptist High Secondary School. Our pastor told us that we should go and work in Libya, three of us are from the same school, and he asked us to fast for seven days for the journey, I lost my parents, I live with my aunty.”