Rotimi Ojomoyela
Ado-Ekiti
Ekiti State police command yesterday paraded some conmen specialised in using the name of Deputy Governor of the state, Kolapo Isola to recruit unsuspecting women into Libya slave market.
Dada Ogundare, who was paraded alongside a prophetess, Omoseeke Komolafe, was said to have collected money from the parents of the victims under the guise that the money was meant to acquire Dubai trip slots allegedly being distributed by the deputy governor.
The suspects claimed that they only assisted the young ladies, one of whom was pregnant, to seek employment outside the country not knowing that they would end up as slaves.
The victims left Nigeria on November 25 by road rather than by air as they were promised that they were going to Dubai only to be taken to Libya where they were sold as slaves.
The parents explained that they later made attempt to bring their children back home but the traffickers in Libya demanded N1.
2 million from them.
Parents of three girls from Ekiti state, who were allegedly given three slots to travel to Dubai but ended in a slave camp in Libya, are demanding the safe return of their children.
One of the parents, Mrs. Margaret Olorunfemi, revealed that she and Prophetess Komolafe are members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the same ward with the deputy governor in Ikere-Ekiti.
The woman said she was worried when she did not hear from her daughter.
According to her, she was able to speak with her daughter on December 10 who told her that she was in a slave camp in Libya.
Mrs Olorunfemi said: “My child called that the prophetess had sold her into slavery that we should go and meet the deputy governor that we should get N1.2 million before they could be freed from slavery.
” Another Ikere woman whose daughter was trapped in Libyan slave camp, Mrs. Feyisayo Adedayo, revealed that her daughter is pregnant.
She said: “My daughter, Ayomiotan, spoke with me on phone that they went through the desert and not by flight as they were promised.
“I don’t have N1.2 million to send to them to free my daughter.
Government should return my daughter to me with her pregnancy
