“The agency has been there for us when we started Devatop and has continued to stand with us on our ‘Talkam’ human rights project.”
The victim was rescued and referred to the agency by the State Security Service in Kano, to be reunited with his family.
The victims consisted of 36 Nigerians from Anambra, Benue, Edo, Kogi, Osun, Ondo and Rivers, and 12 Ghanaians.
The NOA director-general said the sensitisation was aimed at the attitudinal reorientation of students in tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
The former victim now convict had recruited the 14-year-old girl for her sister, who resides in Burkina Faso.
“The victims were on their way to Europe through the Nigerien border.”
75 suspected traffickers were arrested, while three human traffickers were prosecuted and convicted last year.
A set of the rescued victims, 15 females and 12 men, were on their way to Libya, Tunisia and Europe.
“The victims were rescued by the Nigerien police in the Niger Republic, on their way to Libya,” Mr Babale said.
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has apprehended 40-year-old Elisha Effiong for attempting to sell his two daughters for N700,000.
