The Nigeria Immigration Service, Jigawa Command, has rescued 10 suspected victims of human trafficking in the state.
The NIS Comptroller, Mr Tahir Musa, disclosed this during a news briefing in Dutse on Tuesday.
Musa disclosed that the victims were intercepted on Sunday at Tsamiyar Kwance area, Babura Local Government Area of the state, The PUNCH reports.
He said the command’s Operation Salama team intercepted the victims at 1:00p.m, on their way to the Niger Republic enroute to Europe.
He added that the victims, aged between 21 and 30, comprised two males and eight females, adding that six of the victims were from Ogun, two from Ondo State, one from Oyo State and another from Imo.
“Upon their interception at Tsamiyar Kwance and subsequent profiling and interrogation, they confessed to us that they were moved from different locations to Kano state, then to Babura on their way to the Niger Republic en route Tripoli in Libya,” he stated.
