Ogun Police Arrest Suspected Human trafficking kingpin

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Oluwatosin Ejalonibu

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 35-year old alleged human trafficking kingpin, Comfort Innocent over alleged abduction and trafficking of two under aged girls.

PLATFORM Times gathered that the suspect was arrested 22nd December, 2020 by operatives of the Command.

According to a Statement by Command’s Spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi “the arrest of the suspect followed a report by one Oluwaseun Aduratola and one Sakirat Fasasi both residents of Siun town in Obafemi Owode local government area of the state.

The complainants who are also the mothers of the victim reported at Owode Egba police station that the suspect abducted their daughters, Blessing Aduratola 15 and Hasisat Fasasi 16.

Oyeyemi said “the mothers explained that the suspect who is a notorious human trafficker is about taking the two girls to Lybia where they will forced into prostitution.

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On the strength of the report, the DPO Owode Egba division CSP Mathew Ediae quickly swung into action with his detectives and through intelligence driven investigation, they succeeded in arresting the suspect.

“The suspect confessed to being a human trafficker and that she has been into the business for a long time.

“She explained that her husband is based in Italy while she stay in Nigeria recruiting young girls and send them to her husband in Italy enroute Lybia where they will be using them for prostitution”.

On the two girls she recently abducted, the suspect confessed that the two of them had been taken to kaduna state from where they will be transported to Lybia.

According to PPRO the two victims have been rescued from Kaduna by the police.

He said the State Commissioner of police, CP Edward Ajogun has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to anti human trafficking and child labour unit of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation.

The CP however appealed to parents to always be mindful of their children well-being especially the female ones in order to safe them from those wolves in human skin.

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