On behalf of the Nigerian High Commissioner AG Abdullahi, First Secretary MO Enebechi (Monica) received 14-year-old Abache Aloysius Peter at Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association (BNWLA) auditorium in Dhaka.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the BNWLA and the Nigerian High Commission in New Delhi.

BNWLA with the help of home ministry arranged the handing over of the boy who will fly for Nigeria today.

BNWLA Executive Director advocate Salma Ali at a press conference yesterday conveyed special thanks to the Nigerian High Commissioner to New Delhi for his quick initiative to repatriate the boy who was allegedly trafficked.

The names of the boy and his so-called aunt were not found on the passengers' list at Zia International Airport.

The boy was possibly a victim of a strong network of international traffickers, and the Dubai airport authorities and the Emirates Airlines by which the boy flew to Bangladesh deserted the boy here shirking their duties, Salma Ali said.

"If two countries are serious and cordial in handling such incidents of trafficking, it is possible to repatriate the victim within a short time," she said, adding that the home ministry and British High Commission in Dhaka took immediate steps in this regard.

Peter was kept on Airport Police Station after a closed circuit TV detected the boy wandering inside the terminal of ZIA. On July 26, BNWLA took custody of the boy following a court order.

At first the boy expressed his desire to go to London, saying that his doctor parents were staying there. But an extensive interrogation by the airport authorities revealed that his parents had expired and the man he had been living with for the last five years taught him to say so.