Mrs. Rose C Uzoma

NIS arrests woman, intercepts six youths over trafficking.

The Nigeria Immigration Service, Seme Border Command, has arrested a woman who allegedly attempted to traffic six young people.
The Comptroller of Immigration in charge of the command, Julius Ogbu, said at a news briefing at the Seme Border on Thursday that the woman was arrested at checkpoint on Wednesday night.
Ogbu said she was arrested while crossing to the Benin Republic with the victims.
He said the victims comprising a male and five females, aged between 18 years and 22 years were also intercepted by the command.
Ogbu claimed that the woman told the NIS during interrogation that she was taking the young people to Mali to work in her restaurant.

He said the Service would soon release the suspect and the victims to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, for further actions.

While Ogbu was conducting journalists round the Service detention camp, a woman, who claimed to be the mother of one of the victims, came to the border crying, in search of her.
She appealed to the NIS to release her daughter a secondary school leaver who, she said, was learning hairdressing.