Three victims were also rescued from his residence located at number 72 Osayande Street, Upper Sakponba Road, Benin City, Edo State.
Mr Josiah Emerole, the Head, Press and Public Relations, NAPTIP, disclosed the arrest in a statement issued in Abuja.
Emerole disclosed that the 33-year-old man, Monday Ugbo, was nabbed after several weeks of surveillance by the operatives of the agency.
Acting on intelligence reports that he was harbouring some girls in his house preparatory to their movement abroad, operatives swooped on the notorious trafficker in the early hours of Friday and caught him in the process of receiving a registration fee of N50,000 he had demanded from a prospective victim.
According to him, the preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect is also preparing to take the three girls to a River that morning for oath taking before they could embark on the journey to Europe.
NAPTIP said Ugbo, who claimed to be a bricklayer, has been in the business of human trafficking for a long time and operates with another woman currently at large
Emerole quoted NAPTIP’s Director-General, Mrs Julie Okah-Donli, while reacting on the breakthrough commended the operatives, assuring that there is no hiding place for human traffickers anymore in Nigeria.
Okah-Donli noted that the agency and its partners had resolved to collaborate more appropriately in stopping further trafficking of Nigerians both within and outside the country.
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