According to the Nigeria Police Force, it has arrested seven suspects connected to cross-border human trafficking and cyberfraud networks and rescued 46 Ghanaian nationals who were trafficked into Nigeria.
Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the force’s public relations officer, made this known in a statement released on Thursday. He claimed that the rescue came after two INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) operations, both of which targeted transnational organized crime.
According to the statement, one of the operations, which was conducted in collaboration with INTERPOL NCB Accra, resulted in the rescue of 31 victims who were being trafficked from Ghana to Nigeria under the pretense of getting jobs in Europe. Later, the victims were made to engage in shady online marketing practices in connection with the QNET network.
According to the Force, preliminary investigations revealed that one Samuel Dankwah Opoku, a Ghanaian national, was lured by a man posing as George Tenkron with a false job promise in Spain in August of that year.
After paying GHC 30 000 to one Attah Amankwaah, a Ghanaian resident of Nigeria and a well-known QNET associate, he was drawn into QNET’s fraudulent schemes in Nigeria.
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Adejobi revealed that during a raid on their operational base, operatives detained six suspects, including Amankwaah, and recovered incriminating materials.
A wider network of traffickers and online scams was revealed by victims’ and suspects’ statements.
According to him, the rescued victims have since been returned to the Ghana High Commission in Abuja for repatriation and reintegration in accordance with international protocols.
In a separate incident, the statement stated that INTERPOL NCB received a distress alert regarding four Ghanaians who were allegedly trafficked by a 39-year-old woman named Achiaa Grace Afrifa on June 17, 2025. allegedly stealing GHC 126, 000 from the victims under the pretense of providing jobs overseas.
The next day, on June 18, at No. 5, Afrifa was detained. 15 victims were rescued from her custody at 1 Ikot Ebido Street in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
The Force stated that all seven suspects who were detained during both operations are currently under police custody and will be charged in court once the investigations are complete.
Kayode Egbetokun, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), was quoted as praising INTERPOL, the Ghana High Commission, and all involved parties’ swift and cooperative efforts.
Source: Channels TV
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