Operatives of the Abia State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have apprehended a secondary school teacher, identified as Ikechukwu Uduma, and his accomplice, Enyiazu Godswill, for attempting to traffick two female students.
This was made known on Friday by the corps commandant in the state, Paul Igwebuike, who added that they were apprehended around 12.20am on Thursday.
According to him, “We got actionable intelligence that one of the suspects, Ikechukwu Uduma (33), who is a Mathematics teacher attached to Christ Firm International School, Ubaha, Umunna Nsulu, in Isialangwa North LGA, Abia State, had concluded plans to traffick two underage girls (students of the above school) to Lagos State. I quickly mobilised my men, who trailed and later apprehended them at the Unique Life Hotel, Umuahia, and rescued the two victims.”
Igwebuike condemned the act of the teacher while also stating that preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects planned moving the victims to Lagos immediately after their last exam paper on Wednesday, June 21, 2023.
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Earlier, the suspect had used the help of Godswill and his sister (Ikechukwu’s), Cherish, to traffick other young school leavers, who according to them, are now working in a manufacturing company in Ogun State.
The Abia NSCDC boss frowned on the attempts by the syndicate to promote what he described as “modern-day slavery” and vowed to collaborate with relevant agencies of government to put them out of business.
Items recovered from the suspects included a white Nissan Primera (Toyota Previa) and travelling bags containing the personal effects of the girls.
The two students, while fielding questions from journalists, said the suspects told them that they were going to Lagos to work.
Also speaking, the two men said they were taking the girls to Lagos for jobs.