A shrine

By Jethro Ibileke

A human trafficking suspect, Juliet Ukhurebor, has narrated how she made her victims to swear an oath before travelling out of the country in order to deter them from absconding or disobeying her instructions.

The 42-year-old suspect was arrested by operatives of Edo State Taskforce on Human Trafficking with one Joy Osawe.

She said she acted on the instructions of her India-based-daughter who requested a female nannies from Nigeria.

According to her, “My daughter asked them to take oath because she spent money on the would-be nannies travel documents, so that they would not get there and abscond, or refuse to pay her the expenses she incured on their  documents.”

Earlier, the Secretary of the Taskforce, Mrs. Pauline Irusota, explained that the suspects were apprehended following a petition by one Rita Godwin, 25.

She stated that the prime suspect, in collaboration with her daughter in India, proceeded to forge Ghanaian passports and other documents for the victims for the purpose of smuggling them to India, and indeed succeeded in smuggling one of them, Juliet Osagie to India.

Irusota stated that the prime suspect only revealed to the victims after the oath that they were heading to India for prostitution, adding that the petitioner on learning of the development refused to embark on the final journey to Abuja, enroute India.

“Following the refusal of the petitioner to travel to India, the prime suspect, and a native doctor from Enugu State began issuing threats to the petitioner that she pay N8 million, being  the money used to process her traveling documents.

“The prime suspect was arrested at her shrine, and a native pot containing concoctions was recovered as exhibit at the request of the investigators,” she added.