The Nigerian Immigration Service in Kebbi State has rescued a 13-year-old girl, Temitope Marvellous from the claws of human traffickers.
The teenager has been handed over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, (NAPTIP) .
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Briefing journalists before the handover, the Comptroller of Nigeria Immigration Service in the state, Rabi Bashar Nuhu, said the girl was intercepted at Koko Local Government Border Post in Kebbi State, by a patrol team of the Service in a commercial bus, coming from Ogun State to Sokoto, through Kebbi State.
Rabi said after interrogating the girl, they found out that she was a thirteen-year-old girl, and that the phone contact they gave her belonged to some people in Libya, which was very suspicious.
The Comptroller said, all the phone contacts were for someone in Libya, which made the officers believe that the girl was being trafficked.
She added that the girl claimed that, she was going to Libya as a house help, which may not be true.
Nuhu assured that the agency would not fold its hand to see people commit such crimes, as it will arrest and prosecute anyone found in such acts.
While handing the girl to NAPTIP representative from the Sokoto office, the Head of the team, Rulwam Muhammed, assured that the agency would investigate and unite the victim with her family.
(Editor: Anoyoyo Ogiagboviogie)
