Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye
The
Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 23-year-old sex worker,
Happiness Okon, for allegedly trafficking two unnamed minors.
The state Commissioner of Police,
Ikemefuna Okoye, said at the police headquarters in Abeokuta while Okon
was being paraded before journalists on Wednesday that she was arrested
after the young girls were raped in the house where she brought them to
in Abeokuta.
Okoye said, “Men of our Rape and Human
Trafficking Unit arrested her when it was learnt that she was the one
who trafficked the under-aged girls to Ogun State where they were raped.
“She is a sex worker, who specialises in
bringing new workers to her boss. Investigation is still on to ensure
all those connected with the case are arrested.”
Okon told Saturday PUNCH that she
did not go beyond primary school level in her education and was brought
to Abeokuta from Cross River State in 2012 to “sell things in a shop.”
She said, “But when I came here, I became
a prostitute and get about N3,000 every day. My madam was the one who
told me to look for girls that could help her with household chores and
earn some money. I don’t know the name of my madam. We only call her
madam.
“I went to my village to bring the girls.
I told the mother of one of them that I planned to take her to Ogun to
look for work. Her mother agreed but the other girl said she wanted to
follow her friend too. So, I brought both of them.”
It was learnt that the rape was supposed to be an initiation of the girls into the world of prostitution.
The police have vowed to get to the root of the case.
PUNCH
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