A human rights activist and
lawyer in Warri, Delta State, Benefit Orugbo, has revealed how a human
trafficking syndicate based in Delta State reportedly abducted over 40 girls
from Warri area of Delta state, mainly below 18 years, as sex slaves for gold
miners at a mining field in Burkina Faso.
Orugbo, in a petition to the Area
Commander of the Nigeria Police Force in Warri, said that the criminal gang,
which contracted a voodoo priest to administer charms on the girls, seized one
of the teenage girls, Miss Joy (surname withheld) about six months ago.
He also said a Nigerian couple
was among the evil group and urged the police to investigate the complaint and
bring all those found culpable to book in order to free the girls.
The petition reads in part, “Miss
Joy was in early January, 2017 coerced, detained, deceived and harboured by one
the syndicate alongside two other girls of about her age at Ashaka Hotel,
Owo-Olomu in Ughelli South local government area of the state for about four
days within which period a member of the gang took our client and other girls
to a juju shrine at Ughelli, where a man who claimed to be bishop Oku, the
priest of the shrine, bathed and incised with a razor on the foreheads, chest
region and shoulder of our client and the other girls and the incision rubbed
with a substance which appears to be charm.”
“They took Joy and other girls to
Lagos from where they proceeded to Cotonou and thereafter, Burkina Faso, where
a lady member informed our client and the other girls that they have been sold
to her in order for our client and the other girls to do prostitution.
”She further informed them that
they would pay her the sum of N2,000,000 (two million naira) each and our
client and the other girls pleaded with her to send them back to Nigeria, as
their coming was not of their own freewill and that they cannot do prostitution
job as they have never been in that kind of job before.”
“The syndicate sold the girls to the younger
sister of a prominent Delta businessman, who in turn disposed them to yet
another woman in Burkina Faso. The second woman took them to the bush where a
doctor injected a substance in their left armpit to prevent them from getting
pregnant.
“The second madam informed our
client and the other girls that the cost of sleeping with a man is one
deuxmille, which is equivalent to 2000 fcfa and the madam forced our client and
the other girls to sleep with about 16 men a day with the target of remitting
nothing less than 6000 deuxmille a day or our client and the girls would be
beaten mercilessly and starved of food if they fail to meet the daily target.
“Our client had to go through
this awful experience on a daily basis with about 40 other girls in the bush as
sex slaves to the miners since she was forced into prostitution in Burkina Faso
until sometime in April 2017, when after so much search for our client by her
relatives, one Cynthia informed our client’s grandmother, Mrs. Martha, that she
last saw our client with one Mrs. Rita
“Our client’s family mounted
pressure on Rita and her mother for the whereabouts and return by them of our
client and she was returned on the 22nd of April, 2017 to Lagos and she arrived
at Egini community on 23rd of April, 2017,” he asserted.
“However, at the border of Benin
Republic and Nigeria, the persons returning our client injected her with an
unknown substance without her consent.”
“In the light of the forgoing, we
herein pray you to urgently investigate the above complaints and all those
found culpable brought to book and liberate the 40 other or so girls of less
than 18 years used as sex slaves for gold miners in Burkina Faso in order to
rid the society and other immediate neighbouring countries of persons, who
willfully involve themselves in trafficking in persons, abduction and sex
slavery, which are offences prohibited by the relevant criminal laws in
Nigeria.”
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