Edo State Taskforce on Human Trafficking Nabs 42-Yr-Old Trafficker

From Imafidon OSAZUA (Benin) 

Edo State Taskforce on Human Trafficking officials have nabbed a 42-year-old human trafficking suspect identified as Juliet Ukhurebor.

Ukhurebor was arrested  alongside one Joy Osawe and has confessed making her victims to swear an oath before travelling out of the country in order to deter them from refusing to obey instructions.

Speaking with journalists shortly after parading the suspects in Benin City, the
Secretary of the taskforce, Mrs. Pauline Irusota, said the suspects were apprehended following a petition by one Rita Godwin, 25.

She stated that the prime suspect, in collaboration with her daughter in India, proceeded to forge Ghanaian passports and other documents for the victims for the purpose of smuggling them to India, and indeed succeeded in smuggling one of them, Juliet Osagie to India.

Irusota stated that the prime suspect only revealed to the victims after the oath that they were heading to India for prostitution, adding that the petitioner on learning of the development refused to embark on the final journey to Abuja, enrout India.

"Following the refusal of the petitioner to travel to India, the prime suspect, and a native doctor from Enugu State began issuing threats to the petitioner that she pay #8 million, being  the money used to process her traveling documents.

"The prime suspect was arrested at her shrine, and a native pot containing concoctions was recovered as exhibit at the request of the investigators," she added.

Speaking, the suspect said:  "I acted on the instructions of my India -based-daughter who requested a female nanny from Nigeria.

"My daughter asked them to take oath because she spent money on the would-be nannies travel documents, so that they would not get there and abscond, or refuse to pay her the expenses she incurred on their  documents."