Police arrests suspected Trafficker with women in Benue.

A suspected human trafficker, Israel Lame, is currently helping the Benue State Police Command with information on his illegal activities in Nigeria and Burkina Faso.

Lame was apprehended with two young women in Gboko area of the state by vigilantes while trying to flee with them at the motor park en-route Lagos and then outside the country.

The police spokesman, ASP Moses Yamu, who paraded the suspect at the command’s headquarters in Makurdi with 15 others for various crimes committed in different parts of the state, said Lame was arrested based on a tip off.

Yamu said the suspect who is of dual citizenry – Nigeria and Cameroun – specialized in trafficking young women whom he took to Burkina Faso where he resides.

“He was arrested while trying to board a vehicle to Lagos in company of two young girls namely Timia Daasha, 20, from Plateau State and Joy Gideon, 24, from Benue,” the PPRO said.


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