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FRSC rescues trafficked children, impounds vehicle

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Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Boboye
Oyeyemi

The Federal Road Safety Corps has
impounded a vehicle used in child
trafficking and rescued 17 of the trafficked
children in Kaduna State .

The operatives were to arrest the vehicle
for overloading and broken windscreen,
only to discover that the occupants of the
vehicle were suspected child traffickers
with some 17 minors.

In a statement released by the Corps ’ Head
Media Relations and Strategy, Mr. Bisi
Kazeem, he said the vehicle , a Ford Galaxy
model with registration number LMU 76 XA,
grey color , was travelling from Kano to an
undisclosed location on Thursday , April 27,
around 1155hrs , when the patrol team
asked the driver of the said vehicle to stop .

The driver, however, refused to stop , which
led to a chase towards Dutsenma junction,
where he was forced to as the traffic light
turned red. He was arrested , the vehicle
impounded and taken to the FRSC base at
No 12 Ahmadu Bello Way , Kaduna .
The operatives counted 17 minors and 3
adults ( a driver , a woman and one other
person) , totalling 20 persons in the vehicle .

This raised the team lead’ s suspicion .
According to the Corps ’ Sector Head of
Operations in Kaduna who interviewed the
driver, he could not convince the officers
about their movement and the destination
of the children.

Kazeem stated that the Corps Marshal ,
Boboye Oyeyemi , who got a report on
the situation immediately directed that the
case be reported to the Comptroller of
Immigration , Kaduna State , who
immediately deployed his personnel to take
away the Vehicle and its occupants for
further investigation at their Command .

The matter was subsequently transferred to
the National Agency for the Prohibition of
Trafficking in Persons for further
investigation and necessary action .
To this end , Oyeyemi who approved of the
release of the vehicle to NAPTIP to serve as
an exhibit on their request, used the
opportunity to stress the need for constant
inter -agency collaboration to foster security
of lives and properties in the Country .

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