The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has rescued four Nigerian women who were forced into prostitution in different parts of Spain.
The woman were captives of a prostitution ring which operated mainly in Spain, but also in Italy, the United Kingdom, Libya, Niger and Nigeria.
Europol reports that the investigation to dismantle the network began in 2017. The group was reported to have recruited victims by coercing them with voodoo threats in Benin City, Nigeria.
As part of the ritual, the gang forced the women to eat a raw chicken heart and drink whisky. They also took clippings of their hair and nails. The criminals then used fraudulent documents to traffic the women to Europe, where they were housed in poor conditions in Italy for several days.
After arriving Spain the trafficked women were hidden in their madam’s houses and forced to clean and take care of the children, whilst the organised crime group made arrangements for the submission of applications for asylum by the victims.
Following the issuance of a European arrest warrant by Spanish court, a house was searched in the UK as and the individual in Manchester were arrested, alongside seven in Cantabria, two in Vizcaya and two in Alicante, all in Spain.
Meanwhile, following its round-table discussion aimed at addressing the drug use epidemic across the nation late last year, the Senate on Tuesday, February 20, passed a motion calling on the federal government, through the Ministry of Health to establish rehabilitation centers in each of the 36 states of the nation.
In a motion sponsored by Senator Jeremiah Useni and nine other senators, the Senate noted that with more rehabilitation centers in the country, addicts would be able to receive professional treatment in the short and long term, thereby, bringing down the rate of addiction and crime in the country.
Speaking on the motion, deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, emphasized that drug abuse negatively affects the productivity of our youth, stating that there was a need to stop the distribution of dru*s at both the wholesale and retail levels.
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