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NAPTIP Rescues 19 Human Trafficking Survivors In Kano
The Kano Zonal Command of the National Agency for the Prosecution of Trafficking in Persons NAPTIP has disclosed that it has rescued no fewer than 19 survivors of human trafficking.
The Zonal commander of the agency, Abdullahi Babale, disclosed this in an interview in Kano on Tuesday.
Mr Babale said that the survivors were those rescued in the state between Sept. 13 and 18, by the Joint Border Task Force, adding that the suspected trafficker was also arrested during the joint operation.
He disclosed that the survivors were recruited from Abia, Kaduna, Lagos, Ebonyi, Edo, Imo, Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, Enugu and Kogi states.
According to Mr Babale, the suspect is an indigene of Kano and was taking the victims to Libya, for commercial sex and labour exploitation, while the survivors were between the ages of 18 to 32 years.
The zonal commander also disclosed that 18 of the survivors were females while one was a male.