Kwara NSCDC arrests suspect over alleged trafficking of 17-year-old woman to Mali

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kwara State Command, has arrested one Victor Barry, 22, over the alleged trafficking of a 17-year-old woman from Amoyo, to Mali underneath the pretext of securing employment for her in Senegal.

The spokesperson for the command, ASC I Ayoola Michael Shola, disclosed this in a press release on Tuesday, October 13, 2026.

According to Shola, the case was reported by the sufferer’s mom on the NSCDC Amoyo Division on the ninth of October 2026 earlier than being transferred to the State Headquarters in Ilorin.

Preliminary findings point out that the suspect allegedly met the woman at his store on the fifth of October 2026 when she visited to buy noodles and subsequently provided her a possibility to journey to Senegal for employment.

The suspect reportedly took the woman to Lagos on the seventh of October 2026 and handed her over to an unidentified particular person at Mile 2 for onward transportation overseas.

He later knowledgeable NSCDC operatives that the woman had arrived in Mali on the twelfth of October 2026.

The suspect additional alleged that an agent recognized as Joy redirected the woman’s vacation spot to Mali, opposite to their preliminary association for her to journey to Senegal.

“The suspect’s parents have pledged to cooperate with the Command to facilitate the girl’s return to Nigeria within two weeks,” the assertion learn.

“The Command is pursuing the necessary steps to establish the full circumstances of the case and secure her safe return.”