Human Trafficking: Three Underage Girls Rescued By NIS

The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has prevented three minor girls from being transported to Ghana for prostitution.

The girls were rescued on November 4 at the well-liked Waterlines Park in Port Harcourt by members of the command’s Anti-Human trafficking unit. The girls have since been given to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) by the Comptroller of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Rivers State, AJ Kwasua.

Additionally, a nursing mother and a transporter were detained by the command’s agents for allegedly recruiting the girls and aiding their journey, respectively.

Kwasua said;

“The victims are minors. Two are 17 years and one is 16 years. Two are from Rivers State while one is from Akwa Ibom.

“And they confessed to agreeing to travel to Ghana for prostitution and as at the time they were arrested, the transporter had already received money from the recruiter via online to pay the transport fair for them to Lagos en route to Ghana which he had done already.”