Edo police has rescued Seven teenagers from being trafficked overseas.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Philip Ogbadu, who disclosed this to newsmen in Benin on Friday, said the victims were rescued following an intelligence report.
He said the victims, who were rescued on Thursday, included six girls and a male, who were allegedly billed to be trafficked to Cote d’Ivoire and Libya.
The Commissioner explained that the victims were aged between 16 and 20 years.
He said that the girls, who disguised as Muslims by wearing hijab, were intercepted by the police at Isihor police check-point, Benin City, on the Benin-Lagos highway.
He said that the victims, who are from Delta, Edo and Enugu States but all resident in Edo, were allegedly recruited by a sister of one them for the journey.
“They are minors, six girls and one boy. On interrogation we found out they were being trafficked to Cote d’Ivoire by a relation to one of them.
“It is a case of trafficking. They will be handed over to National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person (NAPTIP) for rehabilitation,” he said.