Benin Republic Man Charms 15-year-old Enugu Teenager

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has handed over a trafficked teenager, Pamela Ibe to the Nigerian police.

Olabisi Atanda, the NSCDC Public Relations Officer for Osun Command, said Ibe was found roaming aimlessly on the streets of Ejigbo, Osun when she was rescued.

Atanda stated that the victim was reportedly charmed by one Samuel from Benin Republic.

She said that the suspect had told the teenager he would take her to Lagos to learn hairdressing, Pamela told him to allow her tell her parents before embarking on the journey but he put a charmed bracelet on her wrist and she became unconscious.

She said: “According to Pamela, one Samuel from Cotonou, who is the suspect in the case came to Enugu for Plaster of Paris business(POP). The suspect visited the house of Pamela’s parents in Enugu and promised to take her to Lagos for hairdressing training.

“Pamela thereafter asked Samuel to allow her inform her parents. But before she knew what was happening, Samuel had forcefully put a charmed bangle on her wrist. She became unconscious, as she later found herself at Ejigbo Local Government in Osun State.

“Pamela, who in her statement at the state headquarters of the NSCDC, said she didn’t know the actual date she got to Ejigbo LGA; but on getting there she met two boys and girls in a room. She also said Samuel used to touch their heads with eggs anytime he was going out.

“Luck smiled on her as she was able to escape from the room she was kept. While roaming around the streets of Ejigbo, officers of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Osun State Command, invited her up for further investigations.

“Meanwhile, since the parents had already reported the case of a missing child at the Nigeria Police Force in Enugu State command, the Anti Human Trafficking and Irregular Migration Unit of the NSCDC in Osun Command, therefore, on the 4th February, 2022, handed over Miss Pamela Ibe to the Enugu State Command of the police in good health and rightful state of mind.”