…Suspected Female Trafficker Chinyere At Large
By Southern voice news
The Delta State Police Command has announced the arrest of one Chioma Edafe ‘f’ (36) of Umuogbezea Community in Imo State, who run a hotel were trafficked teenage girls are used as sex workers in Ughelli, as twenty three teenagers are rescued.
The police have equally organised a manhunt for one Chinyere, who trafficked teenagers from the East to the above hotel for forced prostitution.
In a release made available by the state police image maker, SP. Bright Edafe, revealed that acting on credible information received by the Command on the activities of one Chinyere (surname unknown) who specializes in trafficking women from the East to Ughelli Delta State for prostitution, the Commissioner of Police Delta State, CP Abaniwonda Olufemi, who has zero tolerance for human/child trafficking, detailed the DPO Ekpan, CSP Aliyu Shaba, to immediately work on the gathered intelligence and ensure that the hotel is located and the suspect arrested.
According to SP. BRIGHT Edafe, following the intelligence gathering, the police on July 15, 2024, at about 1900hrs, located one of the victims (name withheld) and she revealed the illegal activities of the said suspect Chinyere ‘f’ surname unknown currently at large.
It was revealed that the said Chinyere, lures the teenagers with juicy restaurant jobs offer by telling them that they are coming to Delta State to work as sales girl in a restaurant.
One of the teenagers further stated that the suspect deceived her parents to follow her down to Delta State from Abia State to be a sales girl in a bar with a salary of #30,000 monthly, however on July 12, 2024, she and two other young girls followed the suspect down to a town she later understood to be Ughelli but on getting to their final destination, they saw other teenagers.
Continuing she said; the were all naked and were informed that it was prostitution they were brought to, but they declined and as a result, they were immediately thrown out of the hotel.
The PPRO disclosed further that, base on the information, a combined team of Surveillance stormed the hotel ‘Big Dafe Hotel’ by Ughelli/Patani Road, and arrested one Chioma Edafe ‘f’ 36yrs of Umuogbezea Community in Imo State who runs the hotel and Thirty-Five others among which Twenty-Three are all teenagers.
Serious manhunt for the main suspect Chinyere is ongoing.
The Police noted that in cases of distress, members of the public can reach the command either by reporting to the DPO in their area or call any of the following control room numbers;
– 08036684974
– 08114895600
– 08025666914