The Anambra state Police command has arrested and remanded a Delta based woman identified simply as Madam Success for her alleged role in luring four female students into prostitution.
Madam Success was arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Magistrate Court in Awka, where she was denied bail and also remanded.
The victims, (names withheld), were lured by Madam Success from Akwa Ibom State to Agbor in Delta State, after initially deceiving them with employment offers.
The female students aged between 13 and 15 years, were said to have been promised job offers as sales girls in Delta by Madam Success but were allegedly put in a brothel and made to sleep with at least five men a day.
However, the Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Children’s Welfare, Mrs. Ify Obinabo, reportedly rescued the four female students in Onitsha, from where their trafficker had camped them en route Delta. The trafficker was also arrested, sources said.
The media assistant to Obinabo, Chidimma Ikeanyionwu, told journalists that the commissioner, working with men of the Nigeria Police, stormed a motor park in Onitsha on a tip-off, and rescued the girls while also arrested the trafficker in the process of their boarding a bus to Delta State.
Ikeanyionwu, in a press statement, disclosed that Madam Success was on Friday arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Magistrate Court in Awka, where she was denied bail and also remanded.