The Nigerian Embassy, in a joint operation with a Senegalese-based NGO have rescued twenty-four Nigerian girls who were subjected to sexual exploitation in Tamaccounda and Kedougou Regions of Senegal.
The acting Ambassador in the Nigerian Embassy in Dakar, Dr Salihu Abubakar, stated this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Dakar.
According to him, the girls mostly under-aged, ranging between the ages of 11, 13 and 24 are being trafficked to Senegal, through Cotonou, Republic of Benin, via Mali to Senegal border for the purpose of sexual exploitation in Tamaccounda and Kedougou Regions.
The diplomat said the girls and many more are being trafficked to Senegal, through Cotonou, Benin Republic via Mali to the Senegal border for prostitution.
Abubakar said preliminary investigation revealed that most of the girls, who were school dropouts were from Edo and Delta, adding that a few of them were from Imo and Abia while two others were from Plateau.
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