NAPTIP nabs notorious human trafficker in Benin

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) said on Sunday that it has arrested a notorious human trafficker in Benin.

NAPTIP also disclosed that it has rescued three victims from the trafficker’s house.

The Head, Press and Public Relations, NAPTIP, Josiah Emerole said this in a statement issued in Abuja, Premium Times reports.

Emerole disclosed that Monday Ugbo, 33, was apprehended at his residence located at number 72 Osayande St., Upper Sakponba Road, Benin City, Edo after several weeks of surveillance by the operatives of the agency.

“Operatives of our agency have been on his trail for several weeks, following regular mention of his name in a number of human trafficking cases being handled by the Zonal Command.

“Following intelligence reports that he was harbouring some girls in his house preparatory to their being trafficked abroad, the operative swooped on him in the early hours of Friday.

“He was caught in the process of receiving a registration fee of N50,000 he had demanded from a prospective victim,” the spokesman said.

He said that Ugbo who claimed to be a bricklayer has been in the business of human trafficking for a long time operating with another woman now at large.

According to him, twelve of the victims comprising five males and seven females were handed over to the Kano Zonal Command of the agency by the NIS after they were intercepted at Babamutum border area of Katsina State by the NIS border patrol.

Emerole added that the victims were being moved outside the country as at the time they were rescued.

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