The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has arrested four Nigerians for alleged human trafficking, rape and domestic violence.
At a press briefing on Friday at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja, the acting NAPTIP’s director of investigations, Josiah Emeriole, said the briefing is in line with the agency’s ‘name and shame strategy’ of ending the twin problems of trafficking in persons and violence against persons.
Mr Emerole named one of the suspects as Stephany Bassey, a Sweden based 43 year old woman, from Akwa Ibom State.
According to Mr Emerole, Mrs Bassey was handed over to the agency by officers of the Intelligence and International Cooperation (IICU) through the Embassy of Sweden in Nigeria.
Her arrest followed investigations on suspicions that Mrs Bassey was with a child intended for trafficking.
Mr Emerole said Mrs Bassey was at the embassy to procure travel documents for a two-month-old baby boy whom she claimed was her child.