Eight children, two pregnant women and a nursing mother were among 11 victims rescued from suspected human traffickers at an illegal motor park in Zawan Junction, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, where victims were allegedly being ferried to mining camps in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The rescue, which also led to the arrest of 14 persons, including three suspected traffickers, has exposed what officials describe as a decade-long trafficking operation that had quietly consumed the futures of scores of Plateau children and young women.
Special Adviser to Governor Caleb Mutfwang on Gender and Chairperson of the Plateau State Gender and Equal Opportunities Commission, Olivia Dazyam, who led the operation, said the rescued minors were being recruited as labourers for mining ponds in Ibadan under conditions she described as exploitative.
“We have discovered that some of them are young children, persons below 18 years who are about to travel,
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