The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Oyo State Command, said it had nabbed five suspected human traffickers, who specialised in luring unsuspecting victims in Ibadan.
The NIS Comptroller in the state, Comptroller Mohammed Umar, made this known on Thursday while handing over the suspects to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) at its headquarters in Ibadan.
Umar said that NIS and NAPTIP in the state had been collaborating in fighting against human trafficking and smuggling of migrants.
He said that the collaboration had yielded successes recorded in the arrest of the five suspects in Ibadan.
The comptroller said that NIS received a request from NAPTIP to jointly carry out a raid on the hideout of the suspects upon discovery of the illegal activities.
He said that the collaboration with NAPTIP, in carrying out raids on the hideout of the suspected human trafficking syndicates in Ibadan, initially led to the arrest of 10 suspects.
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