Syndicate tortures, dismembers suspected spiesThe annual World Day Against Trafficking in Persons was celebrated globally on Thursday last week to sensitise people to the reality and dangers of the menace.
She said: “One of our private investigators in our NGO was murdered by a trafficker in Ikorodu area of Lagos State. She was a graduate of Criminology in Benin. “She was gruesomely murdered as she was stabbed to death. It is unfortunate. We have reported the matter but the culprit has still not been prosecuted,” she said in a tone laden with deep frustration and disappointment.
“Traffickers are leeches who profit from the misfortune of another human being. They profit from the ignorance of an innocent person,” Adekunle said. “I had an informant who, as we speak, nobody knows his whereabouts. The traffickers trailed him and one other guy. They beat the hell out of one, making him to leave Edo State. The other one is nowhere to be found. We have been looking for him for a very long time, but even his number is not reachable.“There are so many of them like that. Because their lives are not protected, they would run away from the country rather than staying back to get killed. Informants’ lives are very much in danger.
She said: “The corrupt minds who have invested in that evil trade will naturally fight back. They will attack my person by posting spurious and concocted stories about me to defame me and stain my integrity. “No country can sustain the wastage of its youths the way human trafficking portends. Since I assumed office, I have retooled our arsenal for strategic planning, intervention, arrest, investigation, prosecution and rehabilitation of victims.
“If we create this web of response and cover, our communities will become impregnable to traffickers. The private sector and all have a responsibility too.” The effect of human trafficking on victims and the society at large, according to her, is huge. “Nothing destroys the country’s human resource potentials like trafficking in persons. It has human security implications.“I travelled to Mali and Libya and saw Nigerian girls in slave camps. It was heartbreaking. However hard I try, I can’t delete those images from my brain. That experience told me that there is work here to be done.
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