The Kebbi State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, has rescued and handed over a 13 year old girl, Temitope Marvellous to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
While briefing journalists before handing over the girl to NAPTIP officials in her office, the State Comptroller of Immigration Rabi Bashir Nuhu, said that, the girl was intercepted at Koko border post in Kebbi State by patrol team of the Immigration service in a commercial bus coming from Ogun state to Sokoto through Kebbi state.
Comptroller said after interrogating her, they found out that she was a thirteen year old girl and the phone contact they gave her belongs to some people in Libya which was very suspicious.
She said "All the contacts were for someone in Libya which made the officers to have the believe that the girl was being trafficked".
The comptroller added that the girl claimed that, she was going to Libya as a house help, which may not be true.
Nuhu assured that, the agency would not fold its hands seeing people committing such crimes as it will arrest and prosecute anyone found in such act.
While handing the girl to NAPTIP representative from Sokoto office of the agency, head of the team, Rilwan Mohammed Buhari, assured that the agency would investigate and unite the victim with her family.
While responding to questions from journalists, the victim, Marvellous, said she was asked to come over to Sokoto by someone she refered to as friend. She said she was staying with her grand mother back in Ogun State.
