Victims of human trafficking rescued in Jigawa
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it has rescued four female victims of human trafficking in Jigawa.
The comptroller, Isma’il Abba, told newsmen on Friday that the victims were rescued on Thursday at Gurai village in Babura Local Government Area of the state.
Mr Abba said the victims aged between 16 and 33 were rescued on their way to Tripoli, Libya en route the Jigawa-Katsina border.
The Service, he said, arrested a suspected collaborator of the trafficked victims, adding that preliminary investigation indicated that the victims hailed from Akwa Ibom, Lagos, Ogun and Osun States.
He said the victims would be handed over to the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
The Service had, in May, rescued seven female victims of human trafficking in the same area.
The victims aged between 16 and 27 were rescued on their way to Tripoli, Libya.
They were from Imo, Kwara, Lagos, Ogun and Oyo.
Also, the police command in the state rescued three women in March in the same Babura axis, suspected to have been trafficked from Plateau.
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