The operatives of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) have arrested four persons in connection with alleged human trafficking to Italy for prostitution.
The NIS nabbed a35-year old woman Mrs Mary Omowaye at the Command’s passport office in Ado Ekiti on Tuesdays while trying to procure international passports for the victims to travel to Italy .
The victims are: Adegoroye Abiodun 24, Akinsanmi Titilayo Blessing 30 and Adeyan Motunrayo 20, all from Idanre town in Ondo state .
Addressing journalists while handing over the woman and the three victims to National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) on Wednesday, the NIS Comptroller Ekiti Command, Mrs Ifeoma Benedict Dibia, said they were nabbed after her men got wind of where they were planning to travel to.
Dibia added that her operatives have stepped up efforts to rid the state of human trafficking, child labour and prostitution in the state, going by startling revelation made by Governor Kayode Fayemi that Ekiti had become a transit state for the illicit businesses.
The Comptroller said most painful and disturbing was the fact that the trend of human trafficking are common among children from broken homes.
She said Omowaye was operating in connivance with one Mr Jamiu, who normally processed traveling visas for the victims in Lagos and her sister, Jumoke, who is based in Italy.
