A 15-year-old girl trafficked to Abuja from her home state of Kano has reunited with her family five months after being taken to a woman in the capital city.
City & Crime reports that the girl, Maryam Babangida, worked as a domestic maid to her female master, one Binta Garba, a resident of Karsana District, located in the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC).
An official with the Human Rights Network in Nigeria, an Abuja-based non-governmental organisation, Nura Muktar, who participated in the rescuing operation with the collaboration of the police from the Gwagwa division in the FCT, said the girl fled the home over alleged maltreatment.
“She was first sighted wandering in the bush between the area and Gwagwa community in the FCT by a farmer who took her to his home where she spent a night along with his female children.
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“He handed her over to the Gwagwa police division under the care of a female policewoman for a while,” Muktar stated.
He said the police, in collaboration with his organisation, were able to trace the parents of the victim who lived in the Falle community in Kunchi LGA, Kano State, where the girl was handed over to them on Thursday.
He added that efforts were ongoing to locate the alleged trafficker of the girl, one Adama Bauchi.
The FCT Police Command’s spokeswoman, SP Josephine Adeh, could not be reached for comment.
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