My eyes are wet.
In 2016, I received an SOS call from the Republic of Niger. Success Iyoha, one of the secondary school students who knows me and had my phone number had been lured and trafficked with other girls across the borders and ended up in Libya.
For 90 days I tracked the trail from every distress phone call she made to rescue her.
IOM, UN Mission in Africa, UNICEF Child Protection office and Sam Prianty, a BBC investigative reporter on cases of human trafficking in Nigeria joined me to track the trails until we located the place the human trafficking gang was holding several Nigerian girls and women captives to either be sold or taken across the dangerous Mediterranean Sea to Spain or Italy to be used as sex slaves.
I paid money, the exact amount of the price for buying each captive and Success Iyoha was freed. She returned to her parents and family in Benin, Edo State. She suffered stigma and trauma for her horrifying ordeals in captivity in Libya where she lost her virginity as she was raped, got pregnant and aborted it.
I spent more than N500, 000 for her rehabilitation.
The kidnapped school children and teachers in Oyo State of Nigeria can be rescued before it is too late.
We must stop the wickedness of playing bloody politics with the innocent lives of our poor and powerless people.
The government has abandoned the rescue of the remaining Chibok school girls who were kidnapped in 2014. 11 of them have died.
If the children of the Governor of Oyo State and the grand children of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu were among the kidnapped school children, they would have been rescued without delay.
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