It further disclosed that Ademola ran into trouble when a 17-year-old Togolese, identified simply as Mary, who Ademola, trafficked to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, to work as a housemaid sustained severe burns from a pressure cooker accident.
It was learned that Official of NAPTIP, were contacted when doctors at the hospital where the Togolese maid was being treated discovered that she was trafficked into the country illegally to work as a maid for a woman identified as Angel and her salaries were being paid Ademola.
It was further revealed that Angela was arrested by the officials of NAPTIP in Abuja and she confessed during interrogations that she met Ademola who gave her the maid through one Folake Adelore, but when she was arrested, she told the NAPTIP officials that she doesn’t know where Ademola lives.
The situation prompted a request to the IGP to deploy his operatives at the IRT headed by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, to arrest Ademola.
When Ademola, a widow and a native of Okitipuka area of Ondo State was interrogated she told police that she wasn’t aware that it was criminal to bring foreigners into the country and give them out as domestic help.
She said; “ I went into business in the year 2017. I use to travel to a town named Okuta in Kwara State, which has a border with Benin Republic.
“I used to buy rice and vegetable oil from the market and I met some young ladies who are not Nigerians and they told me that they want to come to work in Nigeria and they needed my assistance and I offered to help them. That was how I started.
“I gave three boys to a poultry farmer in Sango Ota and their brother who brought them to work in Nigeria gave them to me and I got them the poultry job. They earn N12,000, monthly and I usually deduct N2000 monthly from their salary. The boys are between the ages of 22 and 27. I also gave three girls to one Mrs Angel who resides in Abuja. I met her through one Mrs Folake Adelore. First of the girls was 23 years, the second was 20, and the last one was 17. When she collected the first girl, her father died and she left and I replaced her with second girl and during Christmas celebration the girl didn’t want to follow her to her home town at the east and she fired her and called me for a replacement and I sent her the last girl, Mary who got me into trouble.
“One month ago, I learnt that Mary was involved in an accident, she tried to open a pressure pot that was been used to cook beans and the hot beans poured on her body and injured her.
“I also gave Mrs Folake who is also a lawyer a girl and she worked for the woman for one year and was earning N12000 monthly. After the duration of her work, Mrs, Folake, paid the girl, the sum of N144, 000 and I took N24,000 out of it and gave N120,000 to the girl.
“I also gave a boy to a poultry farmer in Ijebu-Igbo Ogun State, the boy is being paid N12,000 monthly and I got N2000, from it monthly. I got this boy through his brother. I also gave two other boys to a poultry farmer in Ibadan before I was arrested and the boys would be paid N12,000 and I will get N2000 as my commission.
“I wasn’t aware that what I was doing was human trafficking until the Abuja incident occurred. Mrs Folake called and told me that she wanted to know if Mrs Angela has called me and that someone around their area has called Naptip, it was then that it dawned on me what I have been involved. “She regretted.
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See no crime here, as she simply acting as agent to recruit domestic workers. 90% of construction workers (tiler, pop etc) in Lagos are from Benin republic and mostly herdsmen are either from Niger Republic or Jubril from Sudan. Make una free the poor woman.
ReplyDeleteI have one friend who fucks all his house helps. he claims the person brings them from Benin rep. these girls agree to sleeping with him with the hope of getting extra cash
ReplyDeleteAs I speak, one of them have twins for him. but they are good looking and taken care of. omo some house girls are pretty sha
You weren't aware. Now you know.
ReplyDeleteNo diffrence from Saudi slavery.
ReplyDeleteIf Nigeria decides to be serious about trafficking, too many people will be found guilty of trafficking. You will "hire" a 14yr old Togolese girl because they're "hard workers" and "pay" her 10k a month (that you hold until she's leaving) slavery!
ReplyDeleteI know someone who changes the Togolese girls every 3months here in Abuja. Their handler brings them from Lagos.
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ReplyDeleteServes her right! Evil woman!
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Let them jail her & throway the key!!!
Carry your cross madam
ReplyDeletePoverty is not good at all. Imagine people dreaming of coming to Nigeria. If Nigeria is a place they look up to, then they must be suffering over there.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame the level of suffering on the continent of Africa. There is poverty and suffering everywhere, but the poverty in Africa is on another dimension.
DeleteStella they bring kids of 8yrs and sef, one woman close to my house in Abeokuta changes them all d time, one time she injured a girl of about 10yrs in the eyes,I dont think that girl can ever see again, cos the eyes bursted, they said she fell on d staircase and replaced her with another one that same week, I almost went to shout at her, but I was just a student at that time.
ReplyDeleteThey also brought one for my big mum in Lagos from jos, the boy was just 10, big mum couldn't take him working, she enrolled him in sch and employed other people, after a few months his parents sent msg that they've been expecting his salary, big mum shouted at them and told them she would report them, he's 13 now and in pry 6, they asked him to come back home last Christmas, we even thought they would send him somewhere else, thankfully he came back, his people kept thanking big mum that their son is now an ajebo.
God will continue to bless Big mummy's household.
DeleteSimilar story here. I was reading this post and was saying to myself that I didn’t know it was a crime either. While growing up, must of our maids were from Togo or far away placed in Nigeria. A few of them were around our age or a little older than us. My mom would register the maid in school or in some kind of apprenticeship if they never went to school before coming to our house so that we all left the house together and come back later because of a lot of maids back then getting pregnant by security men or even getting raped while they stayed home alone all day. My mom always told them she didn’t want them to go work somewhere else after leaving us but instead wants them to have achieved something. A lot of them get exploited by those who bring them, even their own relatives. So my mum would increase their salary or give then bonuses over Xmas but keep it in an account for them without informing their handlers but would only give them when they’re going home for holidays or when they’re leaving for good. We even referred to them as “cousins” in school. Thank God my family is multi-tribal so it was easy to believe. I remember once one nonesense girl in school started saying that so so and so is just a mere maid in so so and so’s house. Just to humiliate the girl in school. Me and my sister and my other cousin went to warn the girl and embarrass her. I also remember one help whose sister brought to us. My mom started paying her her bonus directly and her sister angrily came to take her away shouting that she doesn’t want to work with us anymore etc. The poor girl never used to see her salary because her sister and brother in law pocketed everything. Her parents in the east were told she was going to work and get trained but instead was getting exploited by her own sister and BIL. She was way older than us so was past primary school. My mom had registered her as an apprentice. Her sister didn’t care about all that, all she wanted was her complete salary. She was taken away but she cane back on her own about a year later. When she eventually left us, she went to open her own shop.
DeleteHhhhnnmm mixed feelings.
ReplyDeleteIt’s. It trafficking if you ensure you have a registered employment agency and make them sign documents as your employee. Without proper documentation abuse will take over. So now madam, whether you intended to or not, you are a suspect.
ReplyDeleteMy dear some women are expert in bringing kogi displaced children to people. So I was desperately in need of one cause of my failing health so they were contacted ,they ask me to pay 15000 naira for one child cos my two sisters also need one so after we paid 15000k each for transport as they told us then I went for burial in the east and when we finish they call me to come and take the child, on getting there I met one small girl and told them she is too small so cannot do anything for me that they should change her they collected 5000 from me again to take her home,but must pay again to get another person. But the most surprising thing is as if they plan with these kids to run away from home under one week cos all the children ran away even the almost adult one my sister paid transport to bring to Lagos did the same so we searched for them and bundle them back home and all our money gone like that
ReplyDeleteOne woman in my area has about 8 of them selling in her provision shops
ReplyDeleteLet me guess her store is at sabo ??
Deletelol Anon 23:10 I definitely know who you are referring to!
Deletelol Anon 23:10 I definitely know who you are referring to!
DeleteWhen they are below 18 it is wrong. The madams can be reported for child labour
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