The Edo State Police Command has arrested six female Christian teenagers, who disguised with hijabs as Muslims, and an alleged male agent of human traffickers, Innocent Godfrey.
Edo Commissioner of Police, Phillip Ogbadu, on Friday at the state’s police headquarters in Benin while parading the victims and their agent, said the teenagers: Success Okogbowa, 17, Gift Osabuohien, 18, Endurance Edigho, 18, Gift Edigho, 17, Oghayero, 19, and Happiness Oliver, 16, and Godfrey were billed to travel to Cote d’Ivoire and Libya.
Ogbadu disclosed that the teenagers were intercepted on Thursday by the police at Isihor checkpoint in Benin, on the ever-busy Benin-Lagos Road.
He noted that the victims, who were from Delta, Edo and Enugu states, but all residing in Edo state, were recruited for the journey by Godfrey’s elder sister.
Edo police commissioner revealed that men of the command were able to intercept the teenagers and their agent, following intelligence report.
One of the teenagers, Endurance Edigho, disclosed that they were recruited by Godfrey’s elder sister, at a birthday party of one of their friends.
–THE NATION
