{"id":23997,"date":"2020-01-25T15:06:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T14:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=23997"},"modified":"2020-01-25T15:06:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T14:06:03","slug":"nis-rescues-9-girls-being-trafficked-to-lebanon-dubai-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=23997","title":{"rendered":"NIS rescues 9 girls being trafficked to Lebanon, Dubai, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Bukola Adetoye (NAN)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Operatives of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Command in Lagos, has apprehended another 9 girls being trafficked.<br \/>\nThe girls were on their ways to Lebanon, Cairo, Dubai and India on Ethiopian, Peace, Egypt and East Airlines.<br \/>\nThe service Public Relations Officer, DCI Sunday James made this known in statement on Saturday in Lagos.<br \/>\nAccording to him, four of the girls claims to be traveling for employment without knowing their employers nor aware of the nature of job they were going for.<br \/>\n\u201cThis discovery was made after intensive interrogation by NIS officials,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nJames said the shady journey was organised by agents who took advantage of the girls\u2019 innocence and ignorance.<br \/>\nHe disclosed that two of the girls had earlier claimed to be going for visit.<br \/>\n\u201cHowever, the two, later confessed they were going for hustle in Dubai. Another three, of the girls, claimed they were going to India for medical treatment without referrals.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen further asked the nature of sickness they said yellow fever before they finally confessed to be going for hustle in India,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nHe said NIS refused their departure to save them from indignity to be faced from such journeys.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Comptroller-General of NIS, Mr Muhammad Babandede, therefore, called on parents to be wary of juicy offers on their children, from family and non family members to take the children abroad.<br \/>\n\u201cMost of these trips are deceitful, camouflaged with employment, studies or visit which may end up in exploitation or death. Operatives at the various entry and exit points will never permit them departure.<br \/>\n\u201cThe NIS stepped-up clearance operation that is yielding positive result in the various arrest made at the borders of the country by NIS.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bukola Adetoye (NAN) The Operatives of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Command in Lagos, has apprehended another 9 girls being trafficked. The girls were on their ways to Lebanon, Cairo, Dubai and India on Ethiopian, Peace, Egypt and East Airlines. The service Public Relations Officer, DCI Sunday James made this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[825,826,827],"class_list":["post-23997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-immigrations","tag-lebanon","tag-trafficking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}