Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, revealed the plan to probe the incident at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja where he received the returnees. The stranded Nigerians, who besieged the nation’s embassy in Moscow on July 12, were safely returned to the country following a directive by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Onyeama said after a discussion with the Director General of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Ms Julie Okah–Donli, it was clear that there were possible cases of human trafficking among the returnees.
The minister insisted that some of them, among whom was a nursing mother, were quite too young to have travelled to Russia by themselves solely for the purpose of the World Cup tournament. He added that an investigation would also be launched into an allegation that some travel agents cancelled the return tickets of the football fans without informing them, leaving them stranded in the European country.
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Most of them were aware of what they were getting themselves to,it was a known fact they will need a return ticket for them to be granted visa, so the ticket was not canceled but was never paid for.
ReplyDeleteYou are very right. Getting to Russia also security was tight so there was no way they could have stayed put or move to another country. 95% of people being trafficker are aware of everything.
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ReplyDeleteHmmmm Human trafficking all the time
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