Tuesday, February 23, 2016

17 PEOPLE CAUGHT IN AN ATTEMPT TOCROSS TO LIBYA




 
Immigration authorities have captured 17 Nigerians endeavoring to cross the outskirt into Niger on their approach to Libya with no legitimate papers, a senior Nigerian migration official told AFP on Tuesday. Nigerian Immigration officers caught the 17 in two clusters at a fringe crossing with Niger, said the representative of migration for Katsina state, Ahmed Alhaji Alfa. "Our examination uncovered that their main goal was to cross outskirt in transit to Agadez in Niger Republic and afterward to Libya," he included. "We trust their last destination was Europe through the risky voyage over the (Mediterranean) ocean".


Human trafficking is a noteworthy sorted out wrongdoing issue in Nigeria, where casualties, the greater part of them young ladies and young ladies, are carried into Niger then Libya before a last destination in Europe. The greater part of the casualties are guaranteed lucrative employments however are rather constrained into prostitution once in Europe. Such casualties are regularly made to experience voodoo ceremonies compelling them to promise never to reveal their circumstance to the powers.

The casualties — 10 ladies and seven men matured somewhere around 18 and 40 — were secured on February 14 and 21, Alfa said. "One and only of them was in control of travel archives while the others had no travel records nor any method for employment," he included. Those confined were from the southern Nigerian conditions of Edo and Imo and had likely been "deceived" by a trafficking syndicate working in the northern Nigerian business center of Kano and towns along the fringes of Nigeria and Niger, he said. They were given over to the Nigerian against human trafficking office NAPTIP in Kano on Tuesday for further examination and arraignment. A chase for the traffickers and their patrons has additionally been dispatched.

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