OPERATIVES of the Delta State Police Command have dislodged a suspected human trafficking ring in Agbor and arrested a suspect who allegedly hypnotised a young girl and lured her from Niger State.
The arrest followed intelligence report that a suspect forcefully abducted girls from the North and kept them in his house against their will.
Consequently, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Agbor Division, Obekpa Michael (CSP), led operatives of the Division and trailed the suspect to Oza Nogogo community.
The Command’s spokesman, Bright Edafe (SP), in a statement, said that the operatives found the suspect, simply identified as Bila Halili, aged 30 years, with a young girl, named Rebecca Mathew, who was allegedly kidnapped on September 11, this year.
Edafe said the DPO and his team, alongside members of the local vigilante, rescued the victim, who hails from Bodinga community in Washegu Local Council of Niger State, while the suspect, who hails from Kosso community in Sokoto State, was subsequently arrested.
“Upon painstaking examination of the victim, the operatives discovered that she had been hypnotised, but stated that the suspect lured her out of her family home and destroyed her SIM card to make her unreachable before taking her away,” Edafe stated.
he added that further investigation led the operatives to the victim’s mother, one Esther Moses, in Bodinga community, who revealed that the victim had been missing since September 2.
She reportedly told Police detectives that a complaint was made at the Police at Niger State after her kidnap.
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