The Plateau state police command has arrested two suspected human traffickers in Jos. The suspects were arrested at a motor park in Jos while attempting to transport six teenage girls from Jos to Rivers state.

Chris Olakpe, who is the Plateau state police commissioner while parading the suspects and the six teenage girls at the police command headquarters in Jos yesterday, stated that “the suspects were arrested at Silver Motor Park, Gadabiu Jos while trying to escape with the girls to Rivers state.”

The Plateau state police command has arrested two suspected human traffickers in Jos. The suspects were arrested at a motor park in Jos while attempting to transport six teenage girls from Jos to Rivers state.

Chris Olakpe, who is the Plateau state police commissioner while parading the suspects and the six teenage girls at the police command headquarters in Jos yesterday, stated that “the suspects were arrested at Silver Motor Park, Gadabiu Jos while trying to escape with the girls to Rivers state.”

The commissioner said “On interrogation, the two suspects have confessed they got the girls from Mangor village in Bokkos local government of Plateau state, and the girls were been conveyed to Portharcourt where they will be given menial jobs.”

One of the suspects, Naphtali Zabade denied being a trafficker and claimed that he works for a missionary centre in Port Harcourt and that the girls were less privileged girls that would be helped by the missionary centre to get a job.

Olakpe described human trafficking as modern slavery through which human beings are being sold out as house helps and is becoming rampart in the country.

Eight suspects allegedly arrested with various arms during the recent violent crisis in Bassa Local Government of Plateau State were also paraded by the police. The police boss sad that all suspects paraded would be charged to court without delay.

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Two suspected human traffickers arrested in Jos