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The Benue State Police Command, on Wednesday, rescued 23
victims of suspected human trafficking while they were being conveyed from
Buruku Local Government Area of the state to an unknown destination.
State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, disclosed
this when he paraded one Prince Masenenger Tar as the suspected trafficker who
was conveying the 23 people out of the state in an 18-seater bus belonging to
the Benue State Transport Company known as Benue Links.
Owoseni said that a team of policemen on routine patrol
intercepted the vehicle, April 1st around the Buruku area on suspicion that the
victims who are between the ages of 45 and 12 were being transported illegally
for trafficking purposes, Daily Trust reported.
He added that further investigation revealed that the victims
of the human trafficking were lured by the suspect on promises of
providing them with jobs at Kiama in Kwara State but that they were
actually going to be taken outside the country to Niger for exploitation.
The police commissioner said that the victims who are kept
saved in the command’s custody would be handed over to their parents/guardians
while the suspected trafficker will face the law.
The suspect, Tar, however denied that he was trafficking the
people for exploitation, saying that, he had a restaurant in Kwara that he
wanted the two ladies among the alleged victims to work having settled their
parents for their N10, 000 monthly salary while the others were only going to
join their relatives living in Kwara state.
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