The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons Edo\/Delta command arrested 80 suspected human traffickers in 2016, the Zonal Commander of the agency, Mr Ebenezer Odita, said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Odita said the agency secured a\u00a0conviction for three suspected human traffickers in 2016.<\/p>\n
He said that the three convicts were expected to serve jail terms of two, 10 and 14 years respectively.<\/p>\n
Odita said that within the period under review, the agency arrested more than 80 suspected human traffickers while more than 194 victims were rescued.<\/p>\n
He added that those rescued were mainly teenagers in the age bracket of between 10 and 13 years.<\/p>\n
He said that most of the suspects were arrested in various car parks in Lagos and Ibadan, as well as in Benin based on petitions from the parents of the victims.<\/p>\n
The Zonal Commander said the agency still had about 31 cases pending in various courts.<\/p>\n
He said that statistics of suspects arrested showed that about 80 percent of them were women.<\/p>\n
He explained that most of the victims were lured with promises that they would be taken to European countries to get jobs.<\/p>\n
Odita advised parents who were in the habit of encouraging their children to travel abroad to seek greener pasture to be stop giving such advice.<\/p>\n
\u201cRecession should not encourage slavery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Odita appealed to the media to assist the agency in its enlightenment campaign against human and child trafficking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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