The Plateau State Government has arrested 14 persons, including three suspected traffickers, and rescued 11 victims in a major operation targeting an illegal motor park allegedly used for trafficking children and women to mining camps in Ibadan.
The Special Adviser to Governor Caleb Mutfwang on Gender and Chairperson of the Plateau State Gender and Equal Opportunities Commission, Olivia Dazyam, disclosed this on Friday while briefing journalists at the Commission’s headquarters in Jos.
She said the Commission acted on a tip-off from a Zawan community member in Jos South Local Government Area about an illegal park operating only on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
“Gentlemen of the press, we decided to call you this afternoon because of a challenging situation that we came across. A member of the Zawan community drew our attention to what, according to him, looked like an illegal motor park. He wanted to find out if we knew about the existence of that park, and he gave me the information that the park operates only on Thursdays and Tuesdays. Thursdays, they would convey passengers to a location in Ibadan… Tuesday, they will now bring back some people into that park and drop them there”, Dazyam said.
