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TWO Nigerian girls: Loveth Ebruke and Loveth Willy who were feared missing in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire to where they were taken by a prostitution syndicate returned to Nigeria, Monday.
WARRI - TWO Nigerian girls: Loveth Ebruke and Loveth Willy who were feared missing in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire to where they were taken by a prostitution syndicate returned to Nigeria, Monday.
Meanwhile, the national headquarters of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has summoned its officials in Warri over the escape of the Nigerian kingpin of the prostitution syndicate from its custody as exclusively reported in the last edition of Sunday Vanguard.
The first two girls: Unuagba Elohor and Hope Osioyibo who were taken to Abidjan for prostitution had arrived the country earlier through the efforts of the Warri-based Human Rights Defenders Organisation of Nigeria (HURDON), headed by Mr. C.D.S. Omon-Irabor who contacted the Nigerian embassy in Cote d'Ivoire, the Cote d'Ivoire Ambassador to Nigeria and human rights groups in Nigeria, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire to secure their release from their hotel in Abidjan.
Loveth Ebruke and Loveth Willy who spoke to Vanguard in Warri shortly after their arrival said they were locked up for three days without food by members of the syndicate in bid to break their resolve not to take part in prostitution.
The Nigerian Embassy in Cote d'Ivoire which repatriating the girls to Nigeria said there were other stranded Nigerians in that country and appealed to the police, immigration, health and other road/border security officials in Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria to grant ease of passage to them.
They said they were left to come home on their own by the syndicate following the red alert by security agents, particularly after the exposé on its activities by the Sunday Vanguard.