Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 35-year-old human trafficking kingpin, in the person of Mrs. Comfort Innocent, for the alleged abduction and trafficking of two under-aged girls for prostitution.
In a statement by the command spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi indicated that the suspect was apprehended last week Dec. 22.
According to Oyeyemi, “the arrest of the suspect followed a report by one Oluwaseun Aduratola and one Sakirat Fasasi, both residents of Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state, who reported at Owode Egba police station that the suspect abducted their daughters, namely Blessing Aduratola (15) and Hasisat Fasasi (16).
“They added that the suspect, who is a notorious human trafficker, was about taking the two girls to Libya where they will be forced into prostitution.
“On the strength of the report, the DPO Owode Egba Division, CSP Matthew Ediae, swung into action with his detectives, and through intelligence-driven investigation, they succeeded in arresting the suspect.
“On interrogation, the suspect confessed being a human trafficker and that she has been into the business for a long time.
“She confessed further that her husband is based in Italy while she stays in Nigeria, recruiting young girls she sends to her husband in Italy en route Libya where they will be using them for prostitution.”
Meanwhile, the two girls she recently abducted, she confessed that the two of them had been taken to Kaduna State from where they will be transported to Libya.
