Vanguard gathered that the suspects who were paraded on Thursday by Nigerian Immigration Services, Borno state Command, were four youngmen and a 26 year girl, who was suspected to be a victim.
Speaking with Stephenie, one of the suspect, she told Vanguard that, she was actually going to Cameroun with her fiancée, Christopher Bob Ebisi, to work and earned a living when they were arrested by the men of the immigration services.
According to her, she is an orphan and lived in Orile in Lagos and that her decision to follow her fiancée was borne out of hardship as the only job she could get “in Nigeria only fetch N5, 000 a month which is not enough to pay my transport money to work place not to talk of feeding.”
Also speaking Chritopher Bob aged 32 said he was trained as a Marine Engineer and have been living in Gabon but when he return to Nigeria live was unbearable as such he decided to move on to Cameroun to start live afresh and his fiancée also decided to come along with him.
While speaking on why he chose to go through Banki to Cameroun he said he is aware that his papers were not legal papers as such he decided to go through the illegal way if that would satisfy his desire as he took his fate in his hands.
However, the Comptroller, Nigerian Immigration Services, Borno state Command, Babayo Alkali said the suspects were heading to Libya enroute to Italy when they were arrested.
According to Alkali, they do not have visas or any employment papers nor do they have any reasonable means of livelihood. “One of them infact has no passport. They intended to travel by land through Cameroun, Tchad, Libya and finally Italy and they were arrested during a stop and search exercise by our men of the border guard.”
He recalled that in 2009 the Borno state Command has arrested a total number of one hundred and fifty five (155) persons involved in human trafficking while in 2010 there was no single arrest made, which he said perhaps the perpetrators have changed their routes and moved elsewhere as men of the NIS have remained resolute in their work.
Alkali said the suspects: Christopher Bob Ebisi, Avnenabiku Jonh, Nwanko Joshua Nnabucke, Oyibo Nelson Goodey and Stephanie Stephen are going to be handed over to NAPTIP for further investigation.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/02/5-arrested-over-human-trafficking-in-maiduguri/
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