FRSC intercepts human traffickers, frees 17 children

Officers of Federal Road Safety Corps on patrol have stopped three suspected child traffickers who were with 17 children in Kaduna.

The arrested traffickers, a male driver, and two others, including a woman, have been handed over to the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, the corps said.
According to a statement by the FRSC spokesman, Bisi Kazeem, on Saturday in Abuja, the vehicle with registration number LMU 76 XA did not stop when flagged down, but was arrested at a traffic light at Dutsinma junction in Kaduna.

He said: “The patrol team had earlier set out to book the driver for committing traffic offences of overloading and broken windscreen; but on close inspection, the team leader noticed that the front windscreen of the vehicle had a crack and counted 17 minors and three adults totalling 20 persons instead of only nine persons occupying the vehicle, which raised her suspicions.”