The Kebbi State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has rescued and handed over a 13-year-old girl, Temitope Marvellous to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
While handing over the girl to NAPTIP officials in her office, the state Comptroller of Immigration, Rabi Bashir Nuhu told journalists that the girl was intercepted by patrol team of the Service at Koko border post in a commercial bus travelling from Ogun State to Sokoto through Kebbi State.
Nuhu said that after interrogating the victim, it was found that she is 13-year-old, and the phone contact given to her belongs to some people in Libya, which was very suspicious.
“All the contacts were for someone in Libya, which made the officers to have the belief that the girl was being trafficked”, the Comptroller said.
She added that the girl claimed that she was going to Libya as a house help, “which may not be true”.
Nuhu assured Nigerians that NIS would not fold its arm and allow people commit such crimes as it would arrest and prosecute anyone found in such act.
Head of NAPTIP’s team from Sokoto State, Rilwan Mohammed Buhari stated that the agency would investigate and unite the victim with her family.
The victim, Marvellous said she was asked to come over to Sokoto by someone she referred to as a “friend”.
She said she was staying with her grandmother in Ogun State.
