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Nigerian agency, NAPTIP, arraigns Abu Dhabi-based lady, others for human trafficking

Ms. Ani and Ngozi

Nigerian agency, NAPTIP, arraigns Abu Dhabi-based lady, others for human trafficking

byPremium Times
September 7, 2017
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The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons on Thursday arraigned Rita Ani, an Abu Dhabi-based lady, before Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.

Ms. Ani, 25, was arraigned alongside her elder sister, Ngozi (also known as Princess), Ozigi Abdulkarim, and Princewill James on a ten-count charge bordering on conspiracy and human trafficking.

The offences, according to NAPTIP, are contrary to Sections 13, 14, 18 and 26(b) of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015. 

The defendants pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

The counsel to Ms. Ani and her sister did not file a formal application for their bail and, as a result, they were remanded in prison.

The judge had earlier turned down their lawyer’s oral request that the sisters be remanded in NAPTIP custody.

Messrs. Abdulkarim and James were, however, granted bail following their lawyer’s application on the conditions that they must provide two Sureties each who must not be below the rank of a Director in the Public Service in Abuja and who must own a house each in Abuja.

They must also show proof of being in service by presenting their letters of first appointment and last promotion.

The case was subsequently adjourned to September 13 for hearing. 

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The suspects were arrested last month for alleged trafficking of girls from Nigeria to the United Arab Emirates to engage in forced prostitution.

Ms. Ani, who hails from Enugu State, allegedly belongs to a network of Nigerian traffickers based in Abu Dhabi who engage Nigerian girls in international prostitution in the UAE, NAPTIP said.

The defendants were recently arrested by operatives of NAPTIP in two operations in Gwarimpa, Abuja and Ibadan, Oyo State. 

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Ms. Ani returned home from Abu Dhabi to perform her traditional marriage rites preparatory to moving to the United Kingdom with her fiancé and was arrested in Ibadan by the newly established NAPTIP- Rapid Response Squad (NAPTIP-RRS), the agency said.

The lid on the suspects was blown when one of their alleged victims returned from Abu Dhabi after four months of forced prostitution “under very excruciating conditions including flogging and the insertion of hot boiling ring into her vagina when she does not make enough money a day and forceful collection of the proceeds of the prostitution from her by Ms. Ani,” said NAPTIP.

The victim (name withheld) who is 19 years old was allegedly recruited from Gwarimpa, Abuja by her ex-boyfriend Mr. Abdulkarim, the elder Ms. Ani, and Mr. James for onward transfer to Ms. Ani in Abu Dhabi. 

According to NAPTIP, they prepared her travel documents, took her to Ogbomoso, Oyo State, where a fetish oath was administered on her before the journey.

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