Photo: Man arrested in Benue State over suspected human trafficking
A
suspected human trafficker, Israel Lame was arrested with two young women in
Gboko, Benue State by vigilantes while attempting to flee with them at the
motor park en-route Lagos and then outside the country.
Spokesman of the the Benue State Police Command, ASP Moses Yamu, who paraded the suspect at the command’s headquarters in Makurdi with 15 others said Lame was arrested based on a tip off. The suspect who is of dual citizenry - Nigeria/Cameroun and claimed to be from Cross River State, specialized in trafficking young women whom he takes to Burkina Faso where he resides.
Spokesman of the the Benue State Police Command, ASP Moses Yamu, who paraded the suspect at the command’s headquarters in Makurdi with 15 others said Lame was arrested based on a tip off. The suspect who is of dual citizenry - Nigeria/Cameroun and claimed to be from Cross River State, specialized in trafficking young women whom he takes to Burkina Faso where he resides.
"He was arrested
while trying to board a vehicle to Lagos in company of two young girls namely
Timia Daasha, 20, from Plateau State and Joy Gideon, 24, from Benue," the
PPRO said.
Speaking
with Daily Trust in an interview, the suspect denied the allegation and said he
has lived in Burkina Faso for one year and eight months as a teacher after
graduating from Fidel Polytechnic in Gboko, Benue State.He said he knew one Mr.
Simon Averla, a petty trader within the polytechnic.
"I was a student of
Fidel Polytechnic, Gboko in the Department of Legal Studies. It was during my
stay in the school that I met and became friends with Simon. So we kept
in touch and I was communicating with him while in Burkina Faso about job
opportunities in that country."
The
suspect claims that Simon initially accepted a sales representatives job for
his wife but later declined. Daasha, a tailor’s apprentice denied Lame’s claim
that she was the one who pressured him for the journey to Burkina Faso, adding
that the suspect had been did everything possible to convince her to follow
him.
"He kept persuading
me to follow him that I won’t regret my decision after I had warned him that my
aunty wouldn’t allow me to go on such trip. We concluded arrangement without
any member of my family knowing except my brother and was about to move to
Lagos from where we will go to Burkina Faso when we were arrested by vigilantes
at a motor park in Gboko," Daasha said.
The second victim, Joy, a single mother of two said Lame met
her at a salon in Gboko and told her about the job outside Nigeria where she
could earn a lot of money. The suspect mounted so much pressure on her that she
later agreed to leave with him. Both women said Lame had assured them of
taking care of all their travel bills and other expenses.
Source: Daily Trust
Source: Daily Trust
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