Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, Oyo State Command has reunited a twenty-one-year-old lady, Khadija Borogu with her family from the Benin Republic after fourteen years of child labour in Nigeria.

NIS Comptroller in Oyo state, Mr Babangida Usman performed the handing over of the lady to the Benin Republic Consulate in Ibadan.

He said the lady was brought to Nigeria at the age of seven through an illegal route by her aunt, simply known as Madam Gona and was taken to Kishi, Lagos, and was later brought to Ibadan for child labour.

Mr Usman said, with the assistance of the woman and Benin Republic Consulate, Khadija was able to link up with her parents.

The human trafficking victim, Khadija said she was so happy to be reunited with her family and promised to come back to Nigeria to further her education.

Meanwhile, Immigration Wives Association, IMWAN, had also empowered twenty homeless children in different skills acquisition as their own way of contributing their quota to the development of society.

Rasheedah Makinde

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