Immigration Rescues Six Human Trafficking Victims In Jigawa

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Jigawa State Command, said it has rescued six victims of human trafficking in the state.
The State NIS Comptroller, Ahmed Bagari, who disclosed this to  newsmen in Dutse, said the victims were rescued by men of the command on Sunday.
Represented by DCI Muhammad Yako, Bagari said the victims were rescued at about 6:30 pm in an uncompleted building in Babura town, the headquarters of Babura Local Government Area of the state.
He explained that the victims, aged between 20 and 35, were intercepted while on their way to Libya en route Niger Republic.
The comptroller added that the victims, five females and a male are from Oyo and Nasarawa states.
According to him, none of the rescued victims was in possession of any travel document and no incriminating items were found on them during interrogation.
“The victims were rescued on Sunday, the 1st January 2023 on their way to the Niger Republic en route Libya. The victims are made up of five females and one male that hailed from Oyo state; only one of them is from Nasarawa State,” he stated.
Bagari said “the victims, Olalekan A. Alabi, 35, Kehinde Adetunde, 26, Afolabi Ajibola, 24, Adedoyin Adetoji, 20, Olawuyi Mose Bolatimoyo, 35, and Blessing John, 22, were rescued in an uncompleted building in Babura town where they were kept by a syndicate”.
He added that the NIS Comptroller-General, Mr Idris Jere, had directed that the victims be handed over to the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, for further action.