NDLEA

Officials of Immigration Department and NDLEA in Adamawa have arrested a suspected human trafficker, Mallam Yusuf Abubakar, and his wife with 24 children during a joint patrol.

Parading the suspects and the children shortly before they were handed over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP) on Tuesday in Yola, the Adamawa Comptroller of Immigration, Alhaji Yunusa Lerama, said the suspects were intercepted in Numan town on their way to Taraba from Kano.

According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report, Lerema said the suspects were transporting the children, aged between 12 to 15 years, to Taraba to be engaged for child labour.