A woman and her child rest on June 26, 2019 in Benin City, at one of the shelters of the Society For the Empowerment Of Young Persons (SEYP), an organisation that rehabilitates and reintegrates women returning from Libya carrying young children often born as the result of rape. - More than 14,000 young Nigerians, most of them between the ages of 17 and 35, have returned to their home country through the United Nations Voluntary Return programme, after living in hell in Libya, stranded during months, sometimes years, unable to turn around or cross the Mediterranean. Back in their country, they find themselves faced with a life even more difficult than when they left: riddled with debt, unemployed, broken by the tortures of their traffickers and by their stranded dreams, and victims of the glance of a society that nicknamed them "the returned ones" or the "deportees". (Photo by FATI ABUBAKAR / AFP)
Security operatives at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) arrested a suspected trafficker with a 6-month-old baby Sunday morning.
A reliable source at the airport told The Guardian that the suspect was tracked while attempting to board an early flight departing for Lagos.
The eyewitness, however, revealed that a suspected accomplished suddenly sneaked out of the departure hall as soon as the initial suspect was detained.
Although, it was not certain whether or not she was arrested, our correspondent gathered the security operatives had since moved against the escaped suspect.
The National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Person (NAPTIP) confirmed the arrest.
When contacted, police spokesman of the Police in Kano, DSP Haruna Abdullah Kiyawa who did not deny the incidence asked for time to find out about the development.
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