This brings to 105 the number of trafficked Nigerians rescued from Accra, the capital of Ghana, in the last three months.
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In addition, authorities confirmed Tuesday that 48 people were rescued from distress in the English Channel.
NAPTIP North West Zonal Commander, Abdullahi Babale, made the disclosure while briefing newsmen in Kano on Friday.
The Benin Zonal Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons says it has arrested no fewer than 74 suspected human traffickers between July 2019 until date.
Ijeoma Uduak, Zonal Commander of the agency, comprising Edo, Delta and Bayelsa States, disclosed this on Wednesday in Benin as part of activities to mark the 2020 World Human Trafficking Day.
Uduak explained that the human trafficking, which is commemorated every July 30, was a day set aside to press home the attendant ills of human trafficking.
She disclosed that those arrested included 36 males and 38 females, adding that the figure was from the 89 reported cases before the zonal command.
She also disclosed that the zone secured six convictions of suspects with the latest conviction secured on Tuesday.
She explained that on Tuesday one Emmanuel Collins, a 38-year-old male from Delta State, was sentenced to two years in prison on a two count charge.
She said, however, that though the sentence was to run concurrently, the convict was also given an option of N125,000 fine on each count.
The zonal commander said the convict was arrested by the Nigerian Immigration Service at Seme border while attempting to traffic two young ladies to Dubai.
She noted that the NIS transferred the case to NAPTIP for further investigation, which led to the prosecution and eventual conviction of the convict.
Uduak further disclosed that the zone has 57 pending cases in court.
She disclosed that within the period, 122 victims were received by the zone for counselling and rehabilitation, adding that 28 of the victims have already been rehabilitated.
She said the zone, within the period under review collaborated with 89 stakeholders, carried out 47 advocacy visits, 101 sensitisation and 44 media relation exercises.
Julie Okah-Donli, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, says the agency has rescued more than 13,000 victims from human traffickers.
Criminal gangs are openly advertising “travel agent” style services into Europe, which conceal the risk of death or entrapment, said Chris Hogben, who leads Britain’s Organised Immigration Crime Taskforce.
The Oyo State Government has vowed to bring to book any culprit found to be human traffickers in the state.
The National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) on Friday urged parents to stop putting undue pressure on their children to prevent them from falling victims to human traffickers.
The girls suspected to be victims of human trafficking were rescued after NAPTIP sealed Amazonia Guest House at Dagiri in Gwagwalada, Abuja on May 4.
“We have arrested the three main suspects and are searching several flats,’’ a spokesman for the police said.
The Zonal Commander, Nduka Nwanwenne, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Benin on Wednesday that the traffickers were arrested in the past three months.
The Comptroller of the command, Muhammad Rabi’u, made the disclosure in Katsina on Thursday at the decoration of 121 newly-promoted officers of the service
The Commandant, Steven Lar, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Makurdi that the suspects were transporting children to others parts of the country for child labour