Migration Agency Denies Extorting Sex Workers

The Director General of the Migration Agency, Lucky Agazuma, has denied allegations that the agency extorted money from sex workers arrested during recent enforcement operations.

Agazuma clarified that the payments made by some of the arrested girls were not to the agency, but rather to the lodges where they were apprehended.

“The money those arrested girls paid was fine for the lodge and not to the Migration Agency,” he stated, firmly distancing the agency from any financial wrongdoing.

Speaking further, Agazuma emphasized that the agency is adequately funded and has no need to extort anyone. He said the agency’s primary goal is to rehabilitate the sex workers and reintegrate them into society.

“We have had several engagements with the brotheliers. We told them we will not be after their brothel, but they should not bring underage girls into their brothel,” he explained.

According to him, investigations have uncovered disturbing activities beyond prostitution, including trafficking and organ harvesting. Agazuma revealed that some of the individuals involved have already been prosecuted.

“In our raids, we discovered that they kept underage girls. Those persons who were involved in this act are in prison, including the native doctor who administered the oath to them,” he said.

He also disclosed an ongoing case involving a couple recently apprehended for trafficking a young girl to Mali.

“They also do organ harvesting. Even as I speak to you now, there’s a husband and a wife who just trafficked a little girl to Mali. They are in detention right now,” Agazuma revealed.

The agency, he said, remains committed to curbing human trafficking and ensuring justice for victims.