The National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons, Benue State Zonal Command on Wednesday, reunited 32 victims of human trafficking with their families.

The victims were intercepted by the cops on January 5th this year while being trafficked to Osun State but were reunited with their families on Wednesday after they were taken home in two buses accompanied by NAPTIP officials in the business of officials of Ukum Local Government Area.

NAPTIP Commander, Makurdi Zonal Command, Gloria Bai, informed journalists that most of the 32 victims were underage kids.

Bai stated that the suspect, Angbiandoo Akaasema, and the 32 kids, all from Ukum Local Government Area of the state were en path to Osun State when they were intercepted.

She said, “Out of the 32 children, 21 were already there but only returned house for Christmas while 11 others were being taken as betters.

The Zonal Commander said that the victims while in custody were profiled and discovered that it was more of an organization owned by a family member who is in Osun State.

“The suspect stated her husband owns a Non-Governmental-Organization and desires to help the kids to get access to education since of the crisis in their location.

“So when they landed in Osun, they dispersed them to people in their church to do home assists and shop attendants and in return, the people send them to school.

“We are yet to learn whether the organization is genuine and if the children were being made use of but the suspect is still in our custody for more investigation.

The NAPTIP Zonal Commander who noted that some of the children were taken at the age of 10 and others listed below 18 years pointed out that it protests the law to engage any child listed below the age of 18 as a house help or for any form of labour.

“Three of the kids are from the very same moms and dads and from what we heard, they are all set to offer all their children even when they do not know where the kids are being headed.

Bai urged members of the public to offer the firm info that would make it detect human traffickers and called on local government chairmen and standard rulers in the state to help the agency in sensitising the people.

She advised parents to prepare their households and give birth to kids they would have the ability to care for rather than distribute their children to unidentified people.

ToriNG