Osun State police command officers arrested Muideen Adebisi, suspected of being a human smuggler, for alleged kidnapping.
The suspect is said to have tried to kidnap four teenage girls from Ile-Ife in Osun state and take them to Libya before being arrested.
A spokesman for the state police department said three of the suspect’s victims reportedly managed to escape and contact their parents after they regained consciousness.
However, PPRO said the whereabouts of the remaining fourth victim are still unknown.
“The suspect (Muideen Adebisi) invited the young girls to a birthday party at a hotel in Ile-Ife and gave them food and drinks.
After getting food and drink, the girls fell asleep and then woke up in Kano state en route to Tripoli, the capital of Libya.
“Three of the girls miraculously escaped in Kano and called their parents, who reported the matter to the police.
“Three girls have been reunited with their families, but the whereabouts of the fourth girl are not known,” the statement said.
During interrogation, the police said the suspect insisted that the four girls had willingly accepted to go to Libya and work and that his brother, who was based in Tripoli, had ordered him to fetch the girls and send them to a man in Kano to take them to Libya.
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