Olusegun Ariyo
Kano State Hisbah Command has arrested a suspected human trafficker with 12 women at a motor park along Zaria Road, Kano, while attempting to travel to Lagos.
Deputy Commander General of Hisbah, Sheikh Mujahideen Aminuddeen, who confirmed the arrest in a statement, said the suspect, from Borno State, was intercepted by operatives led by the Officer in Charge of motor parks, Muhammad Bashir.
Aminuddeen, however, didn’t disclose the identity of the suspect.
He explained that preliminary investigations revealed the suspect was trafficking the women, who were each in possession of international passports, with plans to move them through Lagos, Benin Republic, and Ghana to Sierra Leone, before facilitating visas to Saudi Arabia for employment.
Aminuddeen added that the victims confessed to paying N1.5 million each as an initial fee, with an agreement to pay the balance after securing jobs abroad.
The victims include a 50-year-old woman, two aged 23, two aged 20, while the rest are mostly teenagers around 15 years.
According to Hisbah, the victims are from different states, including three from Katsina, two from Kano, and one each from Borno, Jigawa, and Zamfara.
