NAIJA NEWS
Five pregnant teenage girls, suspected to be victims of child trafficking, have been rescued from an alleged baby factory by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Naija News has learned.
The victims, Chioma Emmanuel, 15; Uma Faith, 15; Divine Adimonye, 17; Opara Gift, 15; and Amarachi Mbata, 16, in their statement disclosed that they don’t know the men who got them pregnant.
According to the NDLEA, they were rescued by some of its officials who were on patrol along the Aba-Owerri Expressway.
They were intercepted and picked up while being relocated from their hideout in the Naze area of Owerri to the Ikenegbu area of the Imo State capital.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, said, “In their statements, they claimed they didn’t know the men who impregnated them. The Imo state command of the agency has since been directed to hand them over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, for further investigations.”
Babafemi also said operatives of the NDLEA thwarted attempts to export various quantities of methamphetamine and skunk by members of some transnational drug trafficking organisations through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja and courier companies in Lagos State.
See the full statement below:
NDLEA seizes illicit drug consignment at MMIA, intercepts 5 pregnant teenage girls
”Fresh attempts to export various quantities of methamphetamine and skunk by members of some transnational drug trafficking organisations through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja, and courier companies in Lagos have again been thwarted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, who intercepted the illicit drug consignments concealed in different items.
”At the Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives on Tuesday 12th September intercepted an intending passenger going to Oman, Ugwu Peter Tochukwu, while trying to board a Qatar Airways flight. Upon a thorough search of his luggage, 7.50 kilograms of skunk were discovered concealed inside crayfish mixed with dry bitter leaf.
”In the same vein, NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations attached to some courier companies also intercepted Dubai-bound 2.9 kilograms of skunk and 14 grams of methamphetamine concealed in bags of semovita and soles of ladies’ high heel shoes, respectively.
”In Imo state, operatives on patrol along Aba-Owerri expressway on…
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