Kano Hisbah rescues 16 victims of human trafficking
Story by Dajen Comfort Yakubu
The Kano State Hisbah Command has rescued 16 underage girls from traffickers at the popular Unguwa Uku motor park in the state.
Speaking after the operation, the Deputy Commandant of Hisbah, Mujahid Aminuddeen Abubakar said, “Our men at the motor park were able to seize some persons with underage female children about to be trafficked to Lagos, from there to Benin Republic and Ghana.
“What they do, is from Ghana they will procure fake passports for them and disperse them into other Arab countries.
“All the children are underage and all females and they don’t even know what is happening. From here, some of them will die, some will be sold, some will be subjected to prostitution, some will be made slaves and it’s all against the law.
“Unfortunately, they are all Hausa, nine from Kano, four from Katsina, two from Jigawa, one from Borno; about 16 of them.”
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He, therefore, called on parents to be more vigilant and shun the temptation of acquiring wealth by all means by allowing their children to risk their lives for trafficking.
“Parents must watch over them and be more vigilant; there is nothing good about it, it’s an act of slavery these girls are being subjected to when taken outside,” he said.
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