Human trafficking: We’ve received not less than 100 victims, 70 suspects – Ogun NAPTIP

The Ogun State Commander of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking successful Persons, NAPTIP, Abosede Jimoh, has decried the accelerated emergence of quality trafficking successful the state, stressing that it has received nary less than 100 victims and 70 suspects from precocious 2023 till date.

Jimoh noted these victims were lured nether the disguise of enactment and utilized for intersexual exploitation, lamenting that immoderate of the rescued underaged victims confessed to sleeping with not little than 15 to 20 men connected regular ground and sometimes with animals.

She spoke connected Wednesday astatine a sensitization programme organized by the State Chapter of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) successful collaboration with Police Officer Wives Association successful Ogun state, connected quality trafficking and irregular migration held astatine Lafenwa market, Abeokuta.

The NAPTIP Commander disclosed that successful caller times, speech nether property children, women person besides fell unfortunate to this menace and are being transported to Cairo.

Jimoh stated that erstwhile these victims are received by the agency, they are counseled, taken to the infirmary for aesculapian checkups, empowered and re-...