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A convicted socialite and arrowhead of an International Human Trafficking network operating across the Middle Eastern countries with an operational base in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Uadiale Christiana Jacob, a.k.a Christy Gold, who had been on the wanted list of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), has been arrested.
Christy Gold, who had been declared wanted since the past five years, was arrested and handed over to NAPTIP by officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on duty at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja, on Tuesday, December 31, 2024, on arrival from Dubai for New Year celebration.
Her accomplices including one Michael Nduka, Osas Wiseman, Vivian, and a certain Prophet John in Lagos, who worked for her as field officers and assisted in the recruitment and subsequent transfer of victims to Christy Gold, were still on the run, according to a NAPTIP statement.
Recall that on March 18, 2020, Lagos Airport Command of NIS had shared intelligence with NAPTIP Joint Border Task Force/Benin Satellite Office on the illegal trade of the suspect now in custody.
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