My Husband And I Ship Young Girls To Italy For Prostitution-Kingpin
Mrs. Comfort Innocent, a human trafficking kingpin has revealed how she and her husband runs an illicit business that specializes in trafficking young and teenage girls from Nigeria to Italy through crisis-ridden Libya for prostitution.
Comfort who
was arrested by the Police in Ogun state, said her husband who resides in
Italy, is the receiver of every batch of the trafficked girls, adding that she
has been in the trade for a long time.
The suspect
was apprehended on December 22 in connection with the abduction and trafficking
of two under-aged girls.
Her arrest
followed a report by one Oluwaseun Aduratola and Sakirat Fasasi both residents
of Siun town in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state who told the
police at Owode Egba Police station that the suspect abducted their daughters –
Blessing Aduratola, 15, and Hasisat Fasasi, 16.
The two
mothers complained that the suspect was on the verge of trafficking their
teenage daughters to Italy through Libya where they would be forced into
prostitution.
The
Divisional Police Officer for Owode Egba Division, Mathew Ediae, led a team of
detectives to investigate the case and arrested the suspect.
According to
the Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in a
release, said the suspect had admitted during an interrogation of being a human
trafficker and has been into the business for a long time.
Abimbola, a
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), stated that her husband who is based in
Italy receives the girls while she stays in Nigeria recruiting young girls and
send them to en route Libya.
He noted the
two girls abducted were taken to Kaduna state from where they would be
transported to Libya, saying however that they have been rescued from Kaduna by
the police.
The
Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, has directed that the suspect be
transferred to Anti – Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State
Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation.
Ajogun also
appealed to parents to always be mindful of their children’s well-being
especially the female ones to save them from those wolves in human skin.
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