POLICE in Delta State have declared one Chinyere, a suspected human trafficker, wanted. She was alleged to specialise in luring teenage girls from the East into prostitution in Delta State under pretence of providing jobs for them. This is coming as the police rescued 35 victims from her ‘Big Dafe Hotel’ (brothel) in Ughelli.
This was confirmed in a statement by SP Bright Edafe, Police Public Relations Officer, Delta State yesterday.
According to the statement, “On 15/7/2024, the Command received a credible information on the activities of one Chinyere (surname unknown) who specializes in trafficking women from the East and brings them to Ughelli Delta State for prostitution. Intelligence further revealed that she lures them by telling them that they are coming to Delta State to work as sales girls in a restaurant.
“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.
“Consequently, on 15/07/2024 at about 1900hrs, one of the victims (name withheld) was located and she revealed the illegal activities of the said suspect Chinyere ‘f’ surname unknown currently at large.
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“She 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 N30,000 monthly. However on 12/07/2024, 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.
“They were naked and were informed that it was prostitution they were brought for which they declined and as a result, they were immediately thrown out of the hotel.
“Based 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. Serious manhunt for the main suspect, Chinyere is ongoing.”