Precious Nwaigwe, the 15-year-old schoolgirl, who was kidnapped in the Ajah area of Lagos State about a year ago, has said she was made to work for $6,000 the Libyan love-vendor paid to buy her.

She added that after paying the money, she was again used as collateral for a 500 Libyan dinars (N50,000) loan.

She also stated that her abductors conducted pregnancy tests on her three different times, which were negative.

The schoolgirl, who was released on Friday, spoke to PUNCH Metro on Monday in Ikeja, Lagos.

She said she saw more than 1,000 Nigerian girls, who were also forced to work for the money paid by the pimps to the human traffickers.

Our correspondent had reported how the victim was kidnapped in May, 2014 while returning to her school, Ikenne Community College, Ikenne, Ogun State.

Her parents were said to have been contacted by the kidnappers in the Niger Republic, about two months after, demanding $100,000 (N19.9m) as a ransom.

Policemen from the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad went to different parts of the country to arrest suspects.

A principal suspect and cousin of the victim, Kelvin Okito, was said to have eventually made a call to his accomplices in Libya, asking them to free the victim.

She returned to Lagos on Friday.

Precious said she would never forgive her cousin for betraying her trust.

She said she was actually abducted in Ode Remo, Ogun State after she stumbled on some cultists en route to her school in Ikenne.

She said, “When I left Sangotedo Park in Ajah for school, I was the only one in the vehicle, so the driver dropped me off at Ibeju Lekki.

“I got another vehicle from there, which took me to Ode Remo around 9pm. I could not find a cab that would take me to Ikenne where my school is. I did not know they were having a festival that day and people had been asked to stay indoors.

“I trekked for about two hours until I stumbled on some people who were talking. I discovered they were cultists and they accused me of eavesdropping. They added that I knew their secrets. The ladies among them descended on me.

“After the ladies were done beating me, they asked the men in the group to take turns to rape me.”

She said she faintly heard a man in the group protesting the decision.

She said the man, who she later identified as Seun, took her to Ojota in Lagos.

She said Seun took care of her for two weeks, while she recuperated from her injuries.

Precious added, “One day, he said he wanted to help me to get eyedrop because my eyes were swollen. I begged him to allow me to follow him, at least to see the sun.

“He obliged me and while we were going, my slippers cut and I went back into the house to pick another one. I was on my way when I saw Kelvin (Okito) my maternal cousin.”

The Ohaozara, Ebonyi State indigene, said she narrated her ordeal to Okito, thinking that he would rescue her.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Okito, however, took her to the Alaba area of Lagos and connived with his friend, John, to sell the 15-year-old to John’s elder brother, identified as Nzube Chukwu.

Chukwu was said to be based in Libya.

She explained that Okito deceived her that he had discussed with her mother to take her to Libya where she would continue her education.

She said, “He said he had called my mum and told her he was taking me on a journey to Libya. I pleaded with him to allow me talk to her, but he said my mum was happy that I was going to Libya, where I would continue my education.”

She said together with some other migrants, they spent four days on the road before reaching Agadez in the Niger Republic.

She said at that point, her co-travellers told her that it was a journey of life and death.

She said, “We spent four days on our journey to Agadez in the Niger Republic. The other people with me said it was a journey of life and death. I managed to get a phone, called my mum and asked her for money so I could return to Nigeria.

“They discovered the phone that I used to call my mum and they seized it. I was made to stay indoors in Agadez for three weeks.”

She said they later started the journey to Libya and spent seven days in the desert, adding that some people died on the way.

“We got to Bra in Libya seven days after. I met the wife of the man (Chukwu) and she asked me if I had been told what I was there for. I said, ‘Yes, to continue my school.’

“I was taken to a place where there were so many girls wearing only pants and bras. I told them to wear their clothes. But they laughed at me and said, ‘this one is a JJC (naive)’,” she added.

Precious said the woman told her she had bought her and she must work to pay back the money.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the woman told her she would pay $6,000, including transport, accommodation and feeding costs.

She said when she did not cooperate, she was beaten up.

“Every night, they would torture me with cigarette stubs. They locked me up in a room and beat me up,” she added.

Our correspondent learnt that the practice in the area was that every day’s job was documented in a notebook.

At the end of the month, the total money made by each of the girls would be tabulated and divided into two.

The money would then be shared ─ one part for accommodation and feeding, and the other for transport cost incurred while travelling down to Libya.

Precious said she had pleaded with a man that had indicated interest to sleep with her on a night, to allow her make a call with his phone.

She said she called Okito and told him she was suffering, begging him to talk to the woman to allow her go.

Okito was said to have assured the 15-year-old that he would do something.

She said, “But I paid the money back on my own. The man (Chukwu), who sold me to the woman, then came back and started making trouble again.”

It was learnt that Chukwu later used the victim to borrow 500 dinars (about N50,000).

She said she was relocated to another part of the town, Baladia.

Precious said she was accused of sleeping with Chukwu and was subjected to three pregnancy tests, which were negative.

While working to raise the 500 dinars, she said she met a Nigerian named Soni (Sunday).

The two were said to have become friends.

PUNCH Metro was told that policemen at the SCID and SARS, in the course of investigations, arrested John and Okito in Lagos.

John’s brother, Chukwu, was said to have threatened Precious that she would not be allowed to return to Nigeria until the police in Nigeria released John.

However, Soni helped the victim to pay the money and insisted that the victim was no longer in captivity and Chukwu could not decide her fate.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Soni, who worked as a tiles contractor in Libya, arranged Precious’ transport to Lagos.

She told our correspondent that while preparing to return home, the love-vendor in Libya urged her to recruit girls from Lagos.

She said, “She told me that now that I have seen how she worked and made her money, she would want me to join the business.

“There were more than 1,000 Nigerian girls who had been recruited to work in Libya.

“I was lucky to have survived and returned home safely.”

She said when she arrived in Lagos, she contacted a relative in the Okota area of the state, who took her to her parents.

“I can never forgive my cousin who did this to me.

“I trusted him and he decided to sell me for money,” she said.

Our correspondent learnt that the victim would not return to her school in Ikenne.

Her father, Okoro, said he was happy that his daughter returned home alive.

He said, “There were four people involved in this sad tale and they were my town’s people.

“I spent more than N3m to get my daughter back. I was close to selling my house.”

Her mother, Blessing, commended police, The PUNCH and other Nigerians for their support.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Kenneth Nwosu, said the suspects would soon be taken to court.

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“I trekked for about two hours until I stumbled on some people who were talking. I discovered they were cultists and they accused me of eavesdropping. They added that I knew their secrets. The ladies among them descended on me.

“After the ladies were done beating me, they asked the men in the group to take turns To Molest me.”

She said she faintly heard a man in the group protesting the decision.

Can you now see how wicked some ladies could be..... Asking a fellow man to rape a teen



Thank goodness those men behave like gentlemen and decided not to follow the advice of the ladies

God!!!

Everyone of them involved in this slave trade act , especially d woman will not Knw peace, they will suffer as they have made these small girls suffer

They just turned the small girl into an empty and a scared woman ...mtsweee.

Hope they've arrested all of them and closed down d brothel in Libya

What is the interpol doing about this cartel

But dem for no put d girl's picture na

Something is not right in this write up


1. She said the man, who she later identified as Seun, took her to Ojota in Lagos.

She said Seun took care of her for two weeks, while she recuperated from her injuries.

Precious added, “One day, he said he wanted to help me to get eyedrop because my eyes were swollen. I begged him to allow me to follow him, at least to see the sun.

Question
Who is Seun and how is he involved in the whole conspiracy? Has he been arrested?

2. “He obliged me and while we were going, my slippers cut and I went back into the house to pick another one. I was on my way when I saw Kelvin (Okito) my maternal cousin.”

The Ohaozara, Ebonyi State indigene, said she narrated her ordeal to Okito, thinking that he would rescue her.

Question
Is Kelvin connected with the cultists or Seun? Too much of coincidence here

3. Precious said she had pleaded with a man that had indicated interest to sleep with her on a night, to allow her make a call with his phone.

She said she called Okito and told him she was suffering, begging him to talk to the woman to allow her go.

Okito was said to have assured the 15-year-old that he would do something.

Question
Why did she call Okito again? Why not call her mother whom she's been craving to call and had phone seized earlier?

We can never know the truth but to me it seem the girl must have ran away with the men #justsaying

bigtt76:
Something is not right in this write up


1. She said the man, who she later identified as Seun, took her to Ojota in Lagoff

She said Seun took care of her for two weeks, while she recuperated from her injuries.

Precious added, “One day, he said he wanted to help me to get eyedrop because my eyes were swollen. I begged him to allow me to follow him, at least to see the sun.

Question
Who is Seun and how is he involved in the whole conspiracy? Has he been arrested?

2. “He obliged me and while we were going, my slippers cut and I went back into the house to pick another one. I was on my way when I saw Kelvin (Okito) my maternal cousin.”

The Ohaozara, Ebonyi State indigene, said she narrated her ordeal to Okito, thinking that he would rescue her.

Question
Is Kelvin connected with the cultists or Seun? Too much of coincidence here

3. Precious said she had pleaded with a man that had indicated interest to sleep with her on a night, to allow her make a call with his phone.

She said she called Okito and told him she was suffering, begging him to talk to the woman to allow her go.

Okito was said to have assured the 15-year-old that he would do something.

Question
Why did she call Okito again? Why not call her mother whom she's been craving to call and had phone seized earlier?

We can never know the truth but to me it seem the girl must have ran away with the men #justsaying

From what I see.....
Answer 1 Seun was one of the cultist that voiced out that she shouldn't be raped and took her to his house.

Answer 2 Kelvin his cousin must have known seun from my assumption for kelvin to have known at what time to spot her when she was coming back after her slippers got cut off
So kelvin is not a cultist but a friend to seun

I tell you something, the "work" there is prostitution

chai....na wa ooo

K

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If death penalty is passed on this ones now everybody would later come out to cry fowl, just cant imagine what the little girl had gone thru, it will surely affect the rest of her life. Selling your cousin just cuz of money?? $6k that wasn't upto 1million as at last year The guy needs to first name others involved before he's been given life imprisonment.

Wickedness. We thank God for her safety finally.



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bigtt76:
Something is not right in this write up


1. She said the man, who she later identified as Seun, took her to Ojota in Lagos.

She said Seun took care of her for two weeks, while she recuperated from her injuries.

Precious added, “One day, he said he wanted to help me to get eyedrop because my eyes were swollen. I begged him to allow me to follow him, at least to see the sun.

Question
Who is Seun and how is he involved in the whole conspiracy? Has he been arrested?

2. “He obliged me and while we were going, my slippers cut and I went back into the house to pick another one. I was on my way when I saw Kelvin (Okito) my maternal cousin.”

The Ohaozara, Ebonyi State indigene, said she narrated her ordeal to Okito, thinking that he would rescue her.

Question
Is Kelvin connected with the cultists or Seun? Too much of coincidence here

3. Precious said she had pleaded with a man that had indicated interest to sleep with her on a night, to allow her make a call with his phone.

She said she called Okito and told him she was suffering, begging him to talk to the woman to allow her go.

Okito was said to have assured the 15-year-old that he would do something.

Question
Why did she call Okito again? Why not call her mother whom she's been craving to call and had phone seized earlier?

We can never know the truth but to me it seem the girl must have ran away with the men #justsaying

Exactly my thought some truth still missing. Don't she have her parents number off heart, instead of calling okito. Deal gone sour, between d girl ɑ̤̈̊nd okito.

just here to chill...


in olamide's voice "chilling chilling WO noni gbagbe"
child trafficking still dey?

bigtt76:
Something is not right in this write up


1. She said the man, who she later identified as Seun, took her to Ojota in Lagos.

She said Seun took care of her for two weeks, while she recuperated from her injuries.

Precious added, “One day, he said he wanted to help me to get eyedrop because my eyes were swollen. I begged him to allow me to follow him, at least to see the sun.

Question
Who is Seun and how is he involved in the whole conspiracy? Has he been arrested?

2. “He obliged me and while we were going, my slippers cut and I went back into the house to pick another one. I was on my way when I saw Kelvin (Okito) my maternal cousin.”

The Ohaozara, Ebonyi State indigene, said she narrated her ordeal to Okito, thinking that he would rescue her.

Question
Is Kelvin connected with the cultists or Seun? Too much of coincidence here

3. Precious said she had pleaded with a man that had indicated interest to sleep with her on a night, to allow her make a call with his phone.

She said she called Okito and told him she was suffering, begging him to talk to the woman to allow her go.

Okito was said to have assured the 15-year-old that he would do something.

Question
Why did she call Okito again? Why not call her mother whom she's been craving to call and had phone seized earlier?

We can never know the truth but to me it seem the girl must have ran away with the men #justsaying

that's a fat lie bro

Good she's alive..better than being killed.

You have to be a parent to feel the agony they've gone through.

Nigeria is not a functioning country at all, there has been a systemic collapse of national institutions like the Police, Customs/Immigration and other security agencies.

We can only hope that the desired change will come sooner than later else we will hear alot more of such stories.

Like the Xenophobic South Africa once claimed, 'You do not want to die (and/or live) in Nigeria'.

We thank them for their insult, But Nigeria will rise again.

The story just does not add up.

I pity the poor girl all the same.

dammytosh:
The story just does not add up

most complicated story ever... like an essay

Human are the worst animal ever created. Sell your own cousin for a stipdent, call it industrious and entrepreneurship.

tinz dey happen for dis naija oooi. thank God she is safe

People are wicked sha. May the God that created those girls take vengeance for these girls.
Sometimes I use to wonder if all sinners will get equal punishment in heaven. Or if some people that have engaged in some level of sins and wickedness can be forgiven and allowed to go to heaven.

Story doesn't add up.....

BTW, how can the father just dump the girl in a bus without ascertaining that she got to her destination? Imagine spending two whole weeks in a stranger's house with the parents none the aware ......? Story doesnt add up!

Bonapart:
most complicated story ever... like an essay

seriously.

I read it several times and a lot of questions keep springing up in my mind.

I will rather remain silent.

i just want to believe she was extremely unlucky. first she was abducted when she got stranded on her way to school then she met her cousin thinking he would save her,sold her into slavery...she has been raped multiply times,tortured and suffered intense emotional abuse getting her back is not just the problem but can she recover emotionally.but as a 15 year old,she could have made better decisions...1st she stayed with seun for 2 weeks and didnt escape,then she somehow miraculously. stumbled. on her cousin and believed some rooster and bull story about libya with out hearing from her parents...many loopholes