Three Nigerians, Olusoji Oluwafemi, Johnson Olayinka and Florence Obadiaru have been jailed in Britain for human trafficking.
The three human smugglers were jailed for a total of 13 years for trafficking a woman for sexual exploitation and arranging for her transfer to Italy
Olusoji Oluwafemi, 44, Johnson Olayinka, 45, and Florence Obadiaru, 48, were described by United Kingdom’s Daily Mail as “the London connection in a global trafficking conspiracy”.
Mastermind and counterfeiter Oluwafemi, who coordinated the British side of the operation, was jailed for six-and-a-half years.
Johnson Olayinka, 45, who accumulated the victim from Heathrow and organised her erroneous UK passport, was jailed for four-and-a-half years.
Florence Obadiaru, 48, who kept the victim at her home in London for two-and-a-half weeks afore she left for Italy, was jailed for two years.
Sentencing them, the judge, Rebecca Poulet verbally expressed, “This was a sophisticated and elaborately orchestrated operation in Nigeria which must have cost a considerable amount of mazuma to the traffickers.
“The expected returns were additionally considerable. She was subjected to a juju ritual with the threat of death. She would have been coerced into controlled prostitution as she had no possible way in which she could conceivably support herself in Italy”.
It was reported that they apostatized a 23-year-old lady into flying to Heathrow on a ficticiously unauthentic passport with the promise of edification, a job and an incipient home.
However upon arriving, she was ravished, beaten and subjected to a ‘juju’ ritual afore being sent to Italy where she was coerced to prostitute on the streets.
The victim’s terrible ordeal was only denuded when officials in Milan spotted her forged passport and sent her back to London where she was preserved by police.
Investigators believed the 23-year-old victim, whose communication in English was scarcely passable, was one of many victims of the Nigeria-predicated organised malefaction group.
The trio was in constant contact with a shadowy ‘fixer’ woman who prowled poor Nigerian villages probing for puerile women to exploit.
The woman, who remains at the centre of an international manhunt, additionally supplied woman to another malefaction gang that was smashed last year.
