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Child trafficking: NSCDC hands over 14-yr-old to council

By Fisayo Akinduro, Osogbo

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The Anti Human Trafficking and Irregular Migration Unit of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Osun State Command, has handed over a 14year-old girl, Pamela Ibe, who was allegedly trafficked from Enugu State to Ejigbo Local Government area of the state.
The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Corps, Assistant Superintendent of Corps II, Atanda Olabisi, in a statement made available to newsmen in Osogbo, said one Samuel from Cotonou, who is the suspect in the case came to Enugu for Plaster of Paris business(POP).
The suspect, who was said to have visited the house of Pamela’s parents in Enugu and promised to take her to Lagos for hairdressing training, thereafter informed her parents.
“But before she knew what was happening Samuel had forceful put a charmed bangle on her wrist. Pamela became unconscious, as she later found herself at Ejigbo Local Government in Osun State.”
Pamela, told the Corps that she did not know the actual date she got to Ejigbo; but on getting there she met two boys and girls in a room.
She also said that Samuel used to touch their heads with eggs anytime he was going out.
Luck smiled on her as she was able to escape from the room she was kept.
While roaming around the streets of Ejigbo, officers of NSCDC invited her up for further investigations.
Meanwhile, since the parents had already reported the case of a missing child at the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Enugu State command, the Anti Human Trafficking and Irregular Migration Unit of the NSCDC on February 4, 2022, handed over Pamela to the Enugu Police Command.

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