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Trafficked Nigerian girls rescued from Burkina Faso

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BY AYO OLOWO

Some girls trafficked into Burkina Faso by a female human trafficker have been rescued by the Oyo State command of the Nigerian Immigration Service, and have been reunited with their families in Ibadan, the state capital.

The Comptroller of the Oyo state Command, Innocent Akatu, said the girls were tricked into leave Nigeria with the promise of better jobs and quality of living, adding that the victims did not tell their parents about the journey.

It was gathered that the girls refused to engage in prostitution in Burkina Fasso, and were therefore locked in a room by the trafficker.

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The girls, according to Akatu, got lucky when one of them managed to escaped and alerted the Burkinabe police which rescued them and the process for the deportation began.

Akatu said:

“The victims, after being smuggled to Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, discovered that they were going to be used for prostitution. They were not even told that they were going to Burkina Faso.

These girls were told that they would be given lucrative jobs abroad; one of them was told that she was going to manage a jewellery shop owned by her trafficker.

One of them was taken from her home in Ikorodu, Lagos State, and driven to Saki in Oyo State. When she asked why it had taken them so long to reach the airport, she was told that the plane had left and that they would have to travel by road.

The Nigerian embassy assisted in arranging emergency travelling documents for them to return to Nigeria after their lucky escape. We have taken them to the hospital for screening and they are HIV negative.”

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