{"id":3002,"date":"2025-03-26T09:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:11:39","slug":"female-truck-driver-six-others-arrested-for-child-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/female-truck-driver-six-others-arrested-for-child-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Female truck driver, six others arrested for child trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Our Reporter<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), in collaboration with the Department of State Services (DSS), on Tuesday arrested a female truck driver, Hasana Jacob, and six others for allegedly stealing and trafficking children across Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A statement signed\u00a0 and issued by NAPTIP\u2019s Press Officer, Vincent Adekoye, on Tuesday, the agency revealed that Jacob, a 33-year-old truck driver from Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, worked as an alternate truck driver for a popular cement company based in Obajana, near Lokoja, Kogi State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">She was arrested in Abuja alongside six suspected members of her gang\u2014Aisha Suleiman, Murtala Tanimu, Shamsu Tanimu, Adamu Jacob, Abubakar Ahmed, and Ali Muhammed\u2014while attempting to sell a three-year-old girl stolen from Damaturu, Yobe State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Investigations revealed that Jacob led a well-organized human trafficking syndicate specializing in stealing children between the ages of one and above and selling them for N600,000 each. As a truck driver, she allegedly used her job as a cover, enabling her to abduct children from truck terminals across the country, evade security checks, and deliver them to buyers without suspicion.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to NAPTIP, the syndicate had members with different roles, including luring victims, coordinating sales, and arranging buyers before the children even arrived.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speaking on the arrest, NAPTIP\u2019s Director General, Binta Adamu Bello, described the crime as \u201can unimaginable act of wickedness\u201d while commending the DSS for its role in apprehending the traffickers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">She expressed gratitude to the DSS for its continued support and urged other law enforcement agencies to collaborate more closely in combating human trafficking.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">She said, \u201cI am deeply sad by the latest arrest. It is painful to note that human beings will organize a criminal gang, use a branded vehicle of a company, move from one part of the country to another, steal children belonging to other families, and sell them to interested buyers whose motives for the children are not known.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThey create everlasting sorrow and pain for those families and smile to the bank after selling those children. This is unimaginable and it is a condemnable act of wickedness.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"auto\">\u201cThis is more painful when the arrowhead of this evil syndicate is a woman who knows the pain of motherhood.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Reporter The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), in collaboration with the Department of State Services (DSS), on Tuesday arrested a female truck driver, Hasana Jacob, and six others for allegedly stealing and trafficking children across Nigeria. A statement signed\u00a0 and issued by NAPTIP\u2019s Press Officer, Vincent Adekoye, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[997,1917,1494,267,1596,201],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-crime","tag-collaboration","tag-combating","tag-human","tag-persons","tag-prohibition","tag-trafficking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}