…begs Nigerians to help her return to
Nigeria
Juliana Francis
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| Oluwatosin |
A trafficked Nigerian lady, Adetula
Oluwatosin, 26, has begged Nigerians to help in returning her to Nigeria before
she dies in Oman.
The victim, who travelled out last year
February, in a video which had gone viral, narrated how she was tricked to Oman
to become a domestic servant after her agent promised her fantastic job in America.
Oluwatosin, who said that she is from Ondo
State, said that she decided to leave Nigeria to America in search of greener
pastures after her Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) Programme.
After she was tricked to Oman, she was
drafted to work with a man, who refused to pay her salary for four months.
Rather, the man wanted to have sex with her. When she refused, the man returned
her to the Office, where Nigerians ladies are usually assigned households to
work.
Oluwatosin was locked up in a house for
a week without food and water as punishment for disobeying her boss. She said
that she had to drink toilet water in order to stay alive.
Speaking in Yoruba, Oluwatosin
said: “After my NCE, I saw the situation of things at home, because there was
no job, I decided to travel out. My agent and I agreed that I would travel to
America. He promised to get me a job there, but all of a sudden I found myself
in Oman. I don’t know what happened. We were too; myself and another lady. When
we got to airport in Oman, two people came to pick us. We were taken to an
office, where our passports and phones were seized. We were then taken to our
respective places of work. Since then, my frustrations started. The first four
months I was not paid.”
Oluwatosin explained that since there was no salary and no money with her, she
called her agent to narrate her ordeal, but the agent told her that he had
played his part in moving her out of Nigeria. And since then the agent has
stopped picking her calls.
She further said that the situation
became tensed and unbearable when her boss started troubling her for sex.
She said: “I said never, I would
never have sex with him. Plus I had to do the entire house chore. I wake up by
4am and work till 12midnight. He threatened to kill me if I continued to rebuff
his sexual advances. He returned me to the office, where they shouted at me and
then locked me up for a week without food and water. I was forced to drink
toilet water in order to stay alive. When I was brought out, I was returned to
my work. But it’s been a year and four months without salary. I’m now sick and
wish to return to Nigeria. I don’t want to die in Oman.”
The National Officer of the
Police Welfare Committee and also member of the Police and human rights group,
Mr Sunday Nwaobi, who is now synergising with the National Agency for the
Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) to return the girl to Nigeria,
disclosed that someone closed to the victim, introduced her to the agent. Nwaobi
has also contacted the Director General of NAPTIP, Dame Julie Okah-Donli, on
the matter, who stated that she was aware of the case and that plans were on top
gear to rescue the victim.
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