The Osun State Police Command has arrested a man, Adebisi Muideen, for allegedly trafficking four teenage girls from Osun State to Kano State en-route Tripoli, capital of Libya.
Police said the suspect invited the young girls for a birthday party at a hotel in Ile-Ife and gave them food and drinks.
After taken the food and drinks, the girls slept off and later woke up in Kano State on the way to Tripoli in Libya.
However, three of the girls escaped miraculously in Kano and called their parents who reported the matter to police.
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Three of the girls have been reunited with their families but the whereabouts of the fourth girl was not known at the time of filing this report.
The suspects in a chat with City & Crime said the girls willingly accepted to go to Libya to work.
He said his brother who resides in Tripoli instructed him to get girls for him and send the girls to one man in Kano, who will take them to Libya from Kano.
The suspect said when he got to the man’s house in Kano, he met so many girls that were being processed for the journey to Libya.
The Commissioner of Police in Osun, Kehinde Longe, said the matter would be diligently investigated.
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