Tuesday, July 2, 2024 -The operatives of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Ilela border command, Sokoto State have arrested a 25 year-old, Rukaya Hassan, who attempted to traffic two underage girls across the border to the Niger Republic.
The Command Public Relations
Officer, Mohammed Abdullahi said this in a statement on Tuesday, July 2, 2024,
in Abuja.
Abdullahi said that the victims had been
handed over to the National Agency For Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons
for further investigations.
He said that the operation was in a swift
response to the morale-boosting charge of the new Comptroller of Immigration,
Mrs Kemi Nandap
According to him, during
interrogation, the young lady who resides in the Giribshi area of Sokoto
confessed that she did not know the two young girls she was travelling with to
Niger.
“She claimed they were handed over to her
by one woman in Sokoto, named Maman Adnan who paid for their transport to
Niger," he said.
“She also claimed the woman requested
her to help take the two girls to another woman in Niger, named Amina Yunusa
who will give them jobs in her restaurant in Niamey.”
Abdullahi said that during further
examination, the two teenagers, Nabila Ibrahim, 17 years and her sister,
Zainab Ibrahim, 15 years, said they hailed from Zuru LGA in Kebbi State.
“According to them, they were going to
Niger to resume work in a certain restaurant which they didn’t know the owner,
but that their parents approved of their trip.
Reacting, the Comptroller of
Immigration, Ilela Command, Tony Akuneme who conducted the interviews
invited the NAPTIP, Sokoto State, to take charge of the
two victims and the suspected trafficker.
This, he said would help in further
investigation and possible prosecution.
Akuneme reiterated committed to
sustaining the campaign against smuggling of migrants and trafficking in
persons, to cascade the efforts of the CG.
Akuneme quoted the Immigration CG, as
thanking officers and men of the Ilela border command for their diligence and
promised to reward outstanding personnel.
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