Security Alert for Every Parent: New Methods Used in Trafficking Nigerian Girls Discovered

Security Alert for Every Parent: New Methods Used in Trafficking Nigerian Girls Discovered

  • The Nigeria Immigration Service says traffickers are using ECOWAS Travel Certificate to traffic girls from Nigeria
  • This according to the immigration helps the criminals to evade checks at borders across the ECOWAS states
  • Going further, the immigration added that there are increasing demand for the document against the conventional passport

A message has been sent to Nigerians. The message was sent by the Nigeria Immigration Service, Bayelsa state Command.

According to the command, it had uncovered ‘new methods’ used by suspected human traffickers to traffick underage girls.

This was disclosed in a statement by the state comptroller, Sunday James, Punch Newspaper reports.

Immigration says there is a new trick used in trafficking girls in Nigeria
Traffickers have developed new means to traffick girls. Photo credit: Rauf Aregbesola
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According to James, the ECOWAS Travel Certificate is one of the means adopted by the human traffickers in their illicit business, Vanguard Newspaper added.

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James claimed that the perpetrators use the ECOWAS travel document “to evade security checks and avoid suspicion and transport their victims to any of the regional body’s member states.”

He added:

“The Command noticed a sudden increase in the rate at which young people patronised the ECOWAS Travel Certificate and did a risk analysis and a checklist of the age group that goes for it, the reasons given for the travel and countries where the holders of the document frequent."

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Dr. Josef Onoh, the southeast canvasser for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s presidency, also declared that the APC presidential candidate is very fit to govern Nigeria at 70.

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Source: Legit.ng

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