Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Thursday prevented two teenage sisters from travelling to Libya without parental guidance. The girls, a 16-year-old albino and her 15-year-old sister from Ogun were arrested in Kebbi and handed over to National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). According to NIS Comptroller in Kebbi, Mrs. Rabi Bashir-Nuhu, the two girls started their journey from Ogun State but immigration control stopped them on the suspicion they were being trafficked. “It is a pity, in spite of our calls and advice to parents that they should look after their children, they still don’t heed. “The girls were intercepted at the Yauri border on Nov. 29, as they were travelling from Ogun to Sokoto unaccompanied and alone. “The officers became suspicious of them, especially the albino elder sister, who should be taken care of, and should all be in school.” “They stated that they were going to Libya to do catering, as their elder sister is also working there. “We have the belief that they were being trafficked to Libya to be used for labour exploitation, prostitution, ritualism or organ harvesting. “We have to apply Pacts 10 and 11 of the Immigration Act, 2015, receive them and hand them over to the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).”
Both girls told newsmen that they were picked up by a commercial driver from Shagamu in Ogun and that they were going to Libya with the knowledge and consent of their parents.
