Operatives of Ogun State Police Command have arrested one 35 years old Comfort Innocent over the abduction and trafficking of two girls.
Described as human trafficking kingpin, the woman was arrested on December 22.
Her arrest was carried out following a report by one Oluwaseun Aduratola and one Sakirat Fasasi, both residents of Siun town in Obafemi Owode local government area of Ogun State.
According to the police spokesman in Ogun State, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the report was made at Owode Egba police station that the suspect abducted their daughters – 15 years old Blessing Aduratola, and 16 years old Hasisat Fasasi.
They further explained that the suspect was about taking the girls to Libya where they would be forced into prostitution.
On the strength of the report, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Owode Egba, CSP Mathew Ediae, went into action with his detectives and through intelligence driven investigation, succeeded in arresting the suspect.
On interrogation, the suspect confessed to being a human trafficker and that she had been in the business for a long time.
She confessed further that her husband was based in Italy while she stayed in Nigeria recruiting young girls and sending them to her husband in Italy enroute Libya where they would be used for prostitution.
Concerning the two girls she recently abducted, she confessed that the two of them had been taken to Kaduna State from where they would be transported to Libya.
The two victims have been rescued from Kaduna by the police.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Edward Awolowo 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 also appealed to parents to always be mindful of their children’s well-being especially the female ones in order to save them from wolves in human skin.
