58- year-old woman identified as Modupe Bello has been arrested by the Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, over her alleged involvement in human trafficking and child labour.
Modupe, who lives in B5, Cappa street, Bacita in Edu local government area of the State was arrested for having three teenagers in her home who were not her children.
Babawale Afolabi, the spokesman of the NSCDC, who confirmed the incident to the newsmen in Ilorin stated that three children were recovered from the woman during a raid carried out at her residence in Bacita last weekend.
Babawale said one Agbaje Oluwafemi reported the case of his missing 18-year-old daughter, Damilola Agbaje, to the Bacita Divisional Office of the NSCDC.
Oluwafemi noted that the “whereabouts of his daughter has been unknown since January 18, 2022 and that Damilola’s parents suspected Madam Modupe Bello because she was the one that came to meet them a few days earlier begging the parents to release Damilola to her.”
“Detectives from the intelligence and investigations department later swung into action and a raid was carried out at the woman’s residence in Bacita where three children were recovered while some photographs believed to be that of the children that she had trafficked were also recovered.
“The age range of the children in those photographs are between 13 – 18 years.” he added
Babawale said that during interrogation, the woman admitted to the fact that she used to traffic children in which the end users use these children as housemaids and other strenuous labourers.
She, however, denied knowing the whereabouts of Damilola, Babawale said.
The Kwara State Commandant of the NSCDC Iskilu Makinde has ordered that the case be transferred to the Anti-human trafficking and illegal migration unit of the corps for proper investigations and further action.
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