Police rescue teenagers trafficked to Ivory Coast, intercept two others in Cross River

The Nigeria Police person rescued 2 teenage girls allegedly trafficked from Ogoja, Cross River State, to Ivory Coast, wherever they were reportedly forced into commercialized enactment work.

The victims, identified arsenic Victoria, 16, and Comfort, 17, were repatriated to Nigeria pursuing the involution of policemen attached to the Ogoja Divisional Headquarters.

The girls reportedly told officials that they were lured with promises of amended opportunities but were alternatively taken to Ivory Coast, wherever they allegedly suffered exploitation, carnal maltreatment and different forms of hardship.

In a abstracted operation, constabulary officers besides intercepted 2 different teenage girls who were allegedly being trafficked from Ogoja done Lagos to Ivory Coast.

The involution reportedly prevented the girls from being taken retired of the state and falling into the hands of the suspected trafficking syndicate.

Receiving the rescued girls, the woman of the Ogoja Local Government Council chairman, Mrs Christy Asari Agbeh, condemned kid trafficking and described it arsenic a transgression that exposes children to exploitation and deprives them of their future.

Agbeh commended the constabulary for rescuing the victims and directed that the 2 repatriated girls beryllium taken to General Hospital, Ogoja, for aesculapian introspection arsenic portion of efforts to statesman thei...