Sierra Leonean human trafficker arrested in Enugu

The Nigeria Immigration Service,
Enugu State Command, yesterday, said it
nabbed one Mr. Koffi Hassan, a Sierra Leonean,
who specialises in trafficking women out of
Nigeria for prostitution.
The Immigration Comptroller, Mr. Bashir
Ismail, disclosed this in Enugu.
He said that Hassan, the human traffic kingpin,
who had been on their wanted list, was
arrested following a tip-off.
His words: "Human trafficking has been a
challenge in this part of the country.
"Just last month, we succeeded in arresting one
notorious human trafficker called Koffi Hassan,
who has been involved in trafficking of women
for prostitution.
"We have been tracking him and finally, we
were able to arrest the kingpin. We have now
presented him for prosecution. After
prosecution, we will definitely repatriate him.
"That's a great achievement for us; we have
been challenged for this kind of things in this
area.
"This warn those who are involved in human
trafficking that the end is in sight.Victims that
are with him confessed what he uses them for
and NAPTIP has succeeded in reuniting them
with their families."
Ismail said the command had also embarked
on the repatriation of irregular aliens in the
state.
He said that such people had caused security
breaches in the state and had become threats
to their host communities.
"The service decided to embark on regular
repatriation and removal of such kind of
citizens that are among us.
"Between January and now, we have
repatriated over 98 people out of Enugu. We
have to be on it and to be frank, we have been
getting great support from Enugu State
government.
"We also get people referred to us due to our
synergy with other security agencies. Whenever
they have such kind of people arrested among
other criminals, they do refer them to us, then
we take action.
"We are very happy with that because the
synergy has been working very well. That's why
we were able to repatriate such high number
of illegal aliens.
"Most of the nationals are from Niger Republic,
Togo and Mali and a few Beninois and the
Cameroonians," he said.
He added that citizens from West African
countries were entitled to stay in any member
state under certain regulations backed up by
prescribed documents.
Ismail said that those without the required
documents would be vulnerable to
manipulation and could commit offences
without records.

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