NIS Operatives Rescues Three Teenage Girls on Their To Ghana For Prostitution
Category: Crime News
The Comptroller of Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Rivers State, AJ
Kwasua, has handed over three underage girls rescued from a failed journey to
Ghana for prostitution to the National Agency for the Prohibition of
Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
The Comptroller said the girls
were rescued at the popular Waterlines Park in Port Harcourt on November 4 by
men of Anti-Human trafficking unit of the command.
Speaking at the
Command Headquarters yesterday, Kwasua said the officials of the command
arrested a nursing mother for recruiting the girls and a transporter for
allegedly facilitating the travel.
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He said: “The victims are minors. Two are 17 years and one is 16 years.
Two are from Rivers State while one is from Akwa Ibom.
“And they
confessed to agreeing to travel to Ghana for prostitution and as at the time
they were arrested, the transporter had already received money from the
recruiter via online to pay the transport fair for them to Lagos en route to
Ghana which he had done already.”
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