The Operatives of Rapid Response Squad of Lagos State Police Command
have arrested a suspected human trafficker while trying to transport two
teenage girls through Lagos to Abidjan in Ivory Coast for commercial
sex work.
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The suspect, Martha Edea, 30, a mother of two from
Ogoja in Cross River State, was nabbed in Lagos after travelling with
the young girls from Benin, Edo State.
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Martha confessed to the
police that she was trafficked to Ivory Coast by one Mariam who told her
there were chances of securing a good job in the country but was later
introduced to sex work where she slaved for months in paying back her
custodian who brought her to Abidjan.
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Martha said: “I worked for
three months to pay Mariam N180,000 to balance her for my
transportation into Ivory Coast and also for connecting me.” She added
that Mariam after collecting the money travelled to Spain abandoning her
as a sex worker.
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The mother of two who left her children in the
village with her mother couldn’t find a headway in the business after
her connector had travelled to Spain. She further explained that she
yielded to her friend’s advise to come back to Nigeria to recruit young
girls for the business.
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Martha however, came back to Nigeria and
headed for Edo State where she was told that she will find young girls
willing to travel out of the country to hustle as strumpets.
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On
her part, one of her victims, Francess Bamidele, a 19-year-old secondary
school dropout, said she was elated to hear that prostitution is very
lucrative in Abidjan so she opted in for it.
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Deborah recruited
Elo Etim, 18. Martha in her statement said, ‘I met with Elo’s mother
and told her what her daughter was about to embark on in Abidjan and she
agreed to it, she also prayed for her and wished her good luck.”
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Elo
confirmed that her mother was elated about the journey that she gave
her some money and phone number to call when she got to Ivory coast.
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