Navy Intercepts Trafficking Victims En Route to West African Countries, Hands Them Over to NAPTIP

The Nigerian Navy, Badagry, Lagos, has rescued and handed over nine suspected victims of human trafficking to the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP.

Navy Lieutenant B.C. Awodeyi, the Base information officer, while confirming this on Wednesday in Lagos, said the suspected victims were intercepted on October 11 and 13 during routine stop and search of passengers by the QRT at the jetty.

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In both instances, the victims had been instructed to call contact numbers written on sheets of paper issued to them upon arrival at Panshin where someone would pick them up and take them to the Republic of Benin, Ghana, Guinea and Togo for a supposed better life.