The Lebanese police have arrested the suspected trafficker of a 23-year-old Nigerian teacher, Omolola Ajayi, who was held hostage in the Arab country by her employer, Youssef Maurwan.
Omolola Ajayi, who was sold into slavery in Lebanon, has been rescued by the Nigerian government after a video of herself crying for help went viral.
Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission official stated "Youssef Maurwan had been taken into custody and would be prosecuted for human trafficking and enslavement by the Lebanese authorities.
Youssef Maurwan would be made to pay for Omolola Ajayi’s return ticket also return her passport which he had seized.
It was learnt that the single mother, who was rescued on Monday, is still with the Nigerian Ambassador to Lebanon, Goni Bura, in Beirut.
Omolola Ajayi, revealing how a close family friend sold her into slavery in Lebanon, with a promise to get her a teaching job there, but instead of being offered a teaching job, her passport was seized while her employers allegedly attempted to rape her.
Omolola narrating her plight in Yoruba, the Osun State indigene lamented that her boss made life miserable for her since she arrived in Lebanon.
She stated, “If I am sick, they won’t take me to hospital. They will only give me drugs. Half of the people we came here together have died. I don’t want to die here. I need help to return home. “The person I live with wants to rape me but I have been resisting him. He collected my phone and said he would not give me the phone until I accept to have sex with him. It is when he sleeps or goes out that I manage to take calls where he keeps the phone.”
Ajayi said the situation became worse when she called her agent to get her out of captivity but the man told her he had paid for her life.
Following investigations into the incident, three suspects including two Nigerians and a Lebanese were arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Ilorin.
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