Speaking to Daily
Trust, the 18-year-old girl who was rescued alongside three other girls
identified as Joy Aloaye, Amaka Eze and Anuoluwapo Mustapha by operatives of
the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said she was first sold
to the syndicate when she was 16-years-old and taken to Cotonou, Republic of
Benin and later to Mali to engage in prostitution.
Oshioke said she found a way to return back to Nigeria
because she couldn't cope with sleeping with different men every day.
She said;
“The syndicate took me to Mali where I was
made to sleep with different men. I came back two years ago and later got a
call from my boyfriend, Maxwell, that I should come to Benin. I was living in
Auchi then.
“When I got to Benin along with my elder sister, my
boyfriend asked me to go back to Mali.
“I refused. in the midnight, he threw us out of his
apartment. For fear of being attacked, we agreed to go.
“The next day, which was Tuesday, he put us in a bus coming
to Lagos after calling his contact, who resides at Iyana-Ipaja.”
The NSCDC on Thursday
January 16, revealed that they have arrested a 30-year-old suspected member of
the syndicate identified as Omowunmi Michael, at her residence in Iyana Ipaja,
Lagos.
Omowunmi reportedly
got into a heated exchange with the girls and threatened to send them back to
Edo State after they refused paying an upfront payment of N1 million before she
will hand them over to the syndicate’s leader in Cotonou.
The girls who stormed
out of the room in anger, shared their ordeal with the NSCDC officials after
being spotted in a truck whose driver they begged for a lift. Omowunmi was then
arrested on Wednesday January 15, while trying to traffick four ladies to Mali
for prostitution.
Commandant of NSCDC
Lagos State Command, Cyprian Ehi Otiobhi said;
“Two of the victims,
Victoria Oshioke and Joy Aloaye, were transported from Benin, Edo State, by one
Favour, who is currently on the run, while Amaka Eze, who hails from Onitsha,
Anambra State, was linked to the suspect by one Lekan."
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