{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"startTime":0.49,"endTime":2.13,"body":"Again migrants."},{"startTime":2.45,"endTime":4.578,"body":"He did not pay his money, so the"},{"startTime":4.604,"endTime":8.189,"body":"rebels and the traffickers beat them up."},{"startTime":8.36,"endTime":10.678,"body":"Four days later, he died."},{"startTime":10.834,"endTime":12.67,"body":"The migrants and the traffickers"},{"startTime":12.79,"endTime":15.27,"body":"took him to the graveyard."},{"startTime":15.83,"endTime":17.142,"body":"I followed up."},{"startTime":17.276,"endTime":20.098,"body":"I counted more than 700 migrants."},{"startTime":20.134,"endTime":25.094,"body":"Greve Yard Garnett has been placed"},{"startTime":25.142,"endTime":27.178,"body":"on an international watch list."},{"startTime":27.264,"endTime":30.398,"body":"Failing to meet targets to deal with human trafficking."},{"startTime":30.434,"endTime":32.485,"body":"These migrants are bound for Europe."},{"startTime":32.558,"endTime":35.666,"body":"They've come from all over west and Central Africa,"},{"startTime":35.738,"endTime":38.602,"body":"crossing the Sahara in search of a better line."},{"startTime":38.736,"endTime":40.68,"body":"But they will not all make it."},{"startTime":56.41,"endTime":58.854,"body":"Welcome to heroes behind headlines."},{"startTime":59.022,"endTime":61.458,"body":"I'm your host, Ralph Pazulo."},{"startTime":61.614,"endTime":64.538,"body":"Our guest today is an extraordinary young man from"},{"startTime":64.563,"endTime":69.618,"body":"Ghana named Amanuel Azutang Ayarik, who in the spring"},{"startTime":69.654,"endTime":73.454,"body":"of 2017, launched an investigation into the thousands of"},{"startTime":73.492,"endTime":77.246,"body":"young West African migrants who continue to disappear every"},{"startTime":77.308,"endTime":79.538,"body":"year on their way to what they hope will"},{"startTime":79.564,"endTime":81.438,"body":"be a better life in Europe."},{"startTime":81.594,"endTime":84.734,"body":"As a tank conducted his investigation on his own"},{"startTime":84.832,"endTime":87.554,"body":"and with the help of a $34 pair of"},{"startTime":87.592,"endTime":90.774,"body":"eyeglass frames that he bought from a local electronics"},{"startTime":90.822,"endTime":94.118,"body":"store, which had a small video camera embedded in"},{"startTime":94.144,"endTime":97.73,"body":"them, capable of recording low resolution images."},{"startTime":98.17,"endTime":99.554,"body":"What he captured with that"},{"startTime":99.592,"endTime":102.51,"body":"camera was terrifying and shocking."},{"startTime":102.69,"endTime":105.234,"body":"Migrant women gang raped and sold to sex"},{"startTime":105.282,"endTime":109.278,"body":"traffickers, and men robbed, taken hostage and sold"},{"startTime":109.314,"endTime":112.094,"body":"as slave laborers to foreign construction companies."},{"startTime":112.252,"endTime":115.13,"body":"A fate that befell as a Tang himself."},{"startTime":115.69,"endTime":118.662,"body":"His journey started from the two rooms, stone and dirt"},{"startTime":118.686,"endTime":122.334,"body":"floor hut he lived in outside the capital of Okra."},{"startTime":122.502,"endTime":125.466,"body":"And it took him through Ghana, Burkina Faso"},{"startTime":125.538,"endTime":129.078,"body":"and Mali, across the Sahara desert to Algeria"},{"startTime":129.174,"endTime":132.338,"body":"and Morocco, and finally into the hands of"},{"startTime":132.364,"endTime":134.87,"body":"a good Samaritan who saved his life."},{"startTime":135.04,"endTime":137.474,"body":"And it proved that one man, a very"},{"startTime":137.512,"endTime":140.246,"body":"modest means, with good intentions and a strong"},{"startTime":140.308,"endTime":143.32,"body":"will and moral courage, can make a difference."},{"startTime":143.71,"endTime":146.838,"body":"We're honored to welcome the brave a Manuel"},{"startTime":146.934,"endTime":151.49,"body":"Azatang ayarink as today's hero behind the headlines."},{"startTime":157.73,"endTime":161.73,"body":"I always had ambition of becoming police officer,"},{"startTime":162.05,"endTime":165.03,"body":"going into undercover work and other stuff, but"},{"startTime":165.14,"endTime":167.514,"body":"my dad was also in the police service."},{"startTime":167.672,"endTime":171.162,"body":"I realized that when my dad was in the service, I"},{"startTime":171.176,"endTime":173.754,"body":"could see that some of the streets officers were doing all"},{"startTime":173.792,"endTime":177.558,"body":"sorts of bad activities, which I wasn't happy with."},{"startTime":177.644,"endTime":180.174,"body":"It made me not have any interest or"},{"startTime":180.212,"endTime":183.546,"body":"passion for the police service again, because people"},{"startTime":183.608,"endTime":187.254,"body":"come to complain that their husband beat 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Right."},{"startTime":201.452,"endTime":203.97,"body":"Because they were asking for money from"},{"startTime":204.02,"endTime":206.778,"body":"people who were coming with complaints. Yes."},{"startTime":206.864,"endTime":209.66,"body":"Sometimes they beat the people in the police house"},{"startTime":209.99,"endTime":213.39,"body":"just because they want this, they want that, some"},{"startTime":213.44,"endTime":217.578,"body":"few things, and they always get a mind. Yeah."},{"startTime":217.724,"endTime":219.142,"body":"So lots of corruption."},{"startTime":219.286,"endTime":220.242,"body":"How did you become"},{"startTime":220.316,"endTime":223.17,"body":"interested in investigative journalists?"},{"startTime":223.73,"endTime":226.594,"body":"When I was even at the junior"},{"startTime":226.642,"endTime":228.97,"body":"high school, when I was schooling."},{"startTime":229.09,"endTime":231.274,"body":"I did always love listening to radio."},{"startTime":231.382,"endTime":233.41,"body":"I always listen to current affairs."},{"startTime":233.47,"endTime":236.826,"body":"I always want to know what is going on in the world."},{"startTime":236.948,"endTime":240.322,"body":"So I was always laying in bed listening"},{"startTime":240.346,"endTime":242.454,"body":"to radio to know what is going on."},{"startTime":242.552,"endTime":245.97,"body":"And I was listening to International Media house,"},{"startTime":246.02,"endTime":248.53,"body":"and they were talking about human trafficking."},{"startTime":248.65,"endTime":251.13,"body":"So I heard the reporter saying that people"},{"startTime":251.18,"endTime":253.11,"body":"die in the desert, they run out of"},{"startTime":253.16,"endTime":257.374,"body":"water, and some die in the Mediterranean Sea."},{"startTime":257.482,"endTime":260.67,"body":"So I said, no, this doesn't make sense to me."},{"startTime":260.839,"endTime":264.834,"body":"I would like to sit and do research and"},{"startTime":264.872,"endTime":267.93,"body":"see if I can do investigations on that."},{"startTime":268.04,"endTime":271.518,"body":"People in Western Africa, young people, right,"},{"startTime":271.604,"endTime":275.118,"body":"mostly, who are the future that they"},{"startTime":275.144,"endTime":278.634,"body":"have in their countries is not good. Right."},{"startTime":278.732,"endTime":280.026,"body":"So they're looking for better"},{"startTime":280.088,"endTime":283.986,"body":"opportunities, mostly in Europe, correct? Yes."},{"startTime":284.048,"endTime":289.35,"body":"And tens of thousands are traveling every year across"},{"startTime":289.4,"endTime":292.014,"body":"the Sahara Desert, in part to get to the"},{"startTime":292.052,"endTime":295.126,"body":"coast, to catch boats and so on to Spain"},{"startTime":295.318,"endTime":300.33,"body":"and Italy and find jobs in Europe, correct? Yes."},{"startTime":300.44,"endTime":303.786,"body":"So as I lay in bed, I asked myself those questions."},{"startTime":303.848,"endTime":306.73,"body":"Then I started to write down the route"},{"startTime":306.79,"endTime":310.218,"body":"they use, as the generalist mentioned, on air."},{"startTime":310.304,"endTime":314.658,"body":"And I read also on the internet, what are the"},{"startTime":314.684,"endTime":318.798,"body":"dangers that one could find on his way into the"},{"startTime":318.824,"endTime":322.858,"body":"Sahara Desert to those countries, the migrant Jews."},{"startTime":323.014,"endTime":328.018,"body":"And how many days to take a bus from Ghana to Algeria?"},{"startTime":328.054,"endTime":332.13,"body":"Would there be a bus from Ghana to Morocco?"},{"startTime":332.75,"endTime":335.146,"body":"Because they normally use these two routes."},{"startTime":335.278,"endTime":337.95,"body":"And do you remember approximately how many"},{"startTime":338.0,"endTime":341.42,"body":"were dying every year in the desert? Thousand."},{"startTime":341.75,"endTime":345.994,"body":"500, 800, 900 died."},{"startTime":346.162,"endTime":348.33,"body":"That was what I heard in the radio."},{"startTime":348.89,"endTime":353.11,"body":"So after all this research, I gathered"},{"startTime":353.17,"endTime":356.01,"body":"all my evidence on the Internet."},{"startTime":356.33,"endTime":360.5,"body":"I came down to the city, and I have to raise money."},{"startTime":360.95,"endTime":363.354,"body":"The little money Ghana News Agency was"},{"startTime":363.392,"endTime":365.3,"body":"paying me, I was saving it."},{"startTime":365.93,"endTime":369.462,"body":"So you are going to do an investigation on your own?"},{"startTime":369.656,"endTime":370.23,"body":"Yes."},{"startTime":370.34,"endTime":373.038,"body":"Of what's happening to these migrants who are"},{"startTime":373.064,"endTime":375.534,"body":"moving north and why are they dying in"},{"startTime":375.572,"endTime":379.602,"body":"so many numbers on the trip to Europe? Yes."},{"startTime":379.676,"endTime":382.57,"body":"So I sold some of my lifestyle."},{"startTime":382.69,"endTime":386.814,"body":"I sold my goods, my sheep, my files, my check"},{"startTime":386.852,"endTime":390.426,"body":"ins and other stuff, and I added the money up."},{"startTime":390.608,"endTime":395.226,"body":"Then I had a tablet already."},{"startTime":395.348,"endTime":400.57,"body":"I had 200 phones, and I went to buy a secret"},{"startTime":400.63,"endTime":405.198,"body":"foaming camera, which, when I came down, I bought another one"},{"startTime":405.224,"endTime":408.09,"body":"because the first one was seized by the rebels."},{"startTime":408.59,"endTime":412.05,"body":"So those are glasses with a camera in the frame?"},{"startTime":412.61,"endTime":414.92,"body":"Yes, please. Yeah. Wow."},{"startTime":415.31,"endTime":417.222,"body":"And what is there a little card in"},{"startTime":417.236,"endTime":419.72,"body":"there that you can download on the computer?"},{"startTime":420.17,"endTime":420.81,"body":"Yes, please."},{"startTime":420.86,"endTime":422.862,"body":"There's a USB mini port."},{"startTime":422.996,"endTime":425.574,"body":"So your intention was to record everything,"},{"startTime":425.672,"endTime":429.474,"body":"wear the glasses and record everything? Yes, please."},{"startTime":429.572,"endTime":429.894,"body":"All right."},{"startTime":429.932,"endTime":432.834,"body":"So you have a tablet, you have a phone, and"},{"startTime":432.872,"endTime":437.562,"body":"you have the glasses with the USB port in it."},{"startTime":437.636,"endTime":441.202,"body":"So now you plan your trip to go north? North."},{"startTime":441.346,"endTime":444.006,"body":"Were you were going on your own."},{"startTime":444.068,"endTime":446.25,"body":"This is like your own investigation."},{"startTime":446.57,"endTime":448.182,"body":"Had you been north before?"},{"startTime":448.256,"endTime":450.642,"body":"Have you traveled through these countries that you"},{"startTime":450.656,"endTime":452.25,"body":"were going to be traveling through, and which"},{"startTime":452.3,"endTime":454.206,"body":"countries would you be traveling through?"},{"startTime":454.328,"endTime":457.042,"body":"Actually, that was my first time living Ghana."},{"startTime":457.126,"endTime":462.774,"body":"I've never traveled outside Ghana before, so I"},{"startTime":462.812,"endTime":466.734,"body":"bought a bag, I bought a diary that"},{"startTime":466.772,"endTime":469.83,"body":"I have to write down my important details."},{"startTime":470.81,"endTime":474.418,"body":"Then I went to buy my tickets in advance."},{"startTime":474.574,"endTime":478.28,"body":"Three days later, I set up."},{"startTime":479.63,"endTime":482.998,"body":"Human trafficking is a global problem, with an estimated"},{"startTime":483.094,"endTime":487.89,"body":"24 9 million victims trapped in modern day slavery."},{"startTime":488.39,"endTime":491.562,"body":"Of that number, according to human rights 1st"},{"startTime":491.756,"endTime":495.21,"body":"16 million are exploited for labor, four 8"},{"startTime":495.26,"endTime":498.666,"body":"million are sexually exploited, and four 1 million"},{"startTime":498.728,"endTime":501.87,"body":"are trapped into state imposed forced labor."},{"startTime":502.31,"endTime":504.354,"body":"So as we continue to learn about the"},{"startTime":504.392,"endTime":507.85,"body":"horrible effects of 18th and 19th century slavery"},{"startTime":507.91,"endTime":511.35,"body":"in our hemisphere, this debasement of our common"},{"startTime":511.4,"endTime":514.7,"body":"humanity takes place today all around the world."},{"startTime":515.45,"endTime":517.398,"body":"Why is so little done about it?"},{"startTime":517.544,"endTime":519.778,"body":"Because it's a huge business that earns"},{"startTime":519.813,"endTime":524.36,"body":"profits of an estimated 150,000,000,000 a year."},{"startTime":524.75,"endTime":527.598,"body":"What disturbed as a tank night after night as"},{"startTime":527.624,"endTime":530.706,"body":"he listened to his transistor radio from his home"},{"startTime":530.768,"endTime":534.234,"body":"in Ghana were the thousands of young Africans from"},{"startTime":534.272,"endTime":541.33,"body":"Ghana, mali, guinea, Gambia, senegal, sierra Leone and Nigeria"},{"startTime":541.45,"endTime":543.898,"body":"were dying as they tried to cross the Sahara"},{"startTime":543.934,"endTime":546.454,"body":"desert on their way to north Africa and Europe"},{"startTime":546.502,"endTime":549.14,"body":"in search of employment and a better life."},{"startTime":549.95,"endTime":552.426,"body":"According to one UN estimate, over"},{"startTime":552.488,"endTime":555.75,"body":"100 had perished in 2016 alone."},{"startTime":556.07,"endTime":558.378,"body":"That number didn't include the tens of"},{"startTime":558.404,"endTime":561.802,"body":"thousands of others who, like ezekieang himself,"},{"startTime":561.946,"endTime":564.094,"body":"were forced into slave labor."},{"startTime":564.262,"endTime":567.762,"body":"As he began his investigation, he met two migrants at"},{"startTime":567.776,"endTime":570.75,"body":"the bus station in okra who gave him the name"},{"startTime":570.8,"endTime":574.89,"body":"of a human smuggler named Suleimana, based in Mali."},{"startTime":576.71,"endTime":581.986,"body":"Suleimana is a ghanian human trafficker and a smuggler."},{"startTime":582.118,"endTime":583.474,"body":"He smuggled migrants."},{"startTime":583.522,"endTime":591.958,"body":"Okay, so the day I set off, it was 15th day, 915 GMT."},{"startTime":592.114,"endTime":595.998,"body":"And you start heading north? Yes, please. Okay."},{"startTime":596.144,"endTime":597.486,"body":"And what was that like?"},{"startTime":597.608,"endTime":600.298,"body":"So when I was living, I just prayed"},{"startTime":600.334,"endTime":603.846,"body":"to god that he would let me see"},{"startTime":603.908,"endTime":607.426,"body":"through everything and come back home successfully."},{"startTime":607.498,"endTime":609.538,"body":"So I was a bit worried."},{"startTime":609.634,"endTime":613.17,"body":"I just told myself that I have to just take that risk"},{"startTime":613.97,"endTime":617.422,"body":"to find out why migrants are dying in the Sahara desert."},{"startTime":617.506,"endTime":619.618,"body":"And what did you learn on the bus trip?"},{"startTime":619.714,"endTime":622.402,"body":"How long was the bus trip out to Mali"},{"startTime":622.486,"endTime":624.798,"body":"and what did you learn along the way?"},{"startTime":624.884,"endTime":628.17,"body":"So the process of, as I said, from Ghana,"},{"startTime":628.73,"endTime":635.19,"body":"we continued our journey to the first border families"},{"startTime":636.47,"endTime":639.87,"body":"in Ghana, the share border with Bokina FASU."},{"startTime":640.67,"endTime":644.37,"body":"When we go there, it was Adam."},{"startTime":645.71,"endTime":650.538,"body":"That is 315 345."},{"startTime":650.624,"endTime":653.31,"body":"They're about GMT."},{"startTime":654.59,"endTime":658.414,"body":"So we waited, and the immigration officers at the border"},{"startTime":658.462,"endTime":663.09,"body":"to list that they would like to check our passport."},{"startTime":663.47,"endTime":664.75,"body":"So we all waited."},{"startTime":664.81,"endTime":668.934,"body":"When they break around six, seven, they"},{"startTime":668.972,"endTime":672.51,"body":"came out, went through all our documents,"},{"startTime":672.83,"endTime":674.698,"body":"then they wrote down the details."},{"startTime":674.734,"endTime":677.578,"body":"And from there we continued."},{"startTime":677.614,"endTime":679.642,"body":"So when we entered Bokina for SEO"},{"startTime":679.666,"endTime":682.498,"body":"border and they asked for our national"},{"startTime":682.654,"endTime":685.546,"body":"ID passport, I showed them my passport."},{"startTime":685.678,"endTime":688.062,"body":"They told me to pay an amount of money."},{"startTime":688.196,"endTime":691.474,"body":"And I told the security officers that my passport"},{"startTime":691.522,"endTime":695.766,"body":"is equal passport economic Community of West African State"},{"startTime":695.828,"endTime":699.018,"body":"so all countries that gives you permission to go"},{"startTime":699.044,"endTime":701.274,"body":"into any country in West Africa? Yes, please."},{"startTime":701.432,"endTime":703.83,"body":"And they told me if I don't pay,"},{"startTime":703.88,"endTime":705.498,"body":"they are going to beat me up."},{"startTime":705.584,"endTime":707.626,"body":"That they were not colonized"},{"startTime":707.698,"endTime":709.606,"body":"by the British or Americans."},{"startTime":709.678,"endTime":712.35,"body":"They were colonized by the French people."},{"startTime":712.52,"endTime":714.954,"body":"So they started money from me."},{"startTime":715.052,"endTime":723.514,"body":"I paid the money, and believe you me, from the"},{"startTime":723.552,"endTime":728.606,"body":"border they share with Mali, they were 17 security checkpoints."},{"startTime":728.738,"endTime":731.722,"body":"So each checkpoint, sometimes some of"},{"startTime":731.736,"endTime":734.47,"body":"them will take 100, say far."},{"startTime":734.52,"endTime":736.44,"body":"Some will take 200, say far."},{"startTime":737.49,"endTime":741.434,"body":"So they keep on starting money, each checkpoint."},{"startTime":741.482,"endTime":745.462,"body":"At 17 checkpoints, you had to pay a fee to get through."},{"startTime":745.656,"endTime":746.4,"body":"Yes."},{"startTime":747.45,"endTime":752.734,"body":"So I paid, and I filmed some"},{"startTime":752.772,"endTime":755.054,"body":"of them behind camera as evidence."},{"startTime":755.162,"endTime":756.274,"body":"They didn't know."},{"startTime":756.432,"endTime":759.574,"body":"Then we continued the journey, and we"},{"startTime":759.612,"endTime":763.74,"body":"entered Male border, 17 checkpoints again."},{"startTime":764.07,"endTime":766.894,"body":"So this is money that they're extorting from"},{"startTime":767.052,"endTime":769.91,"body":"every one of the migrants that's going north."},{"startTime":769.97,"endTime":773.266,"body":"They're having the same experience as you are, right?"},{"startTime":773.388,"endTime":773.998,"body":"Yes."},{"startTime":774.144,"endTime":776.198,"body":"And even with those checkpoints,"},{"startTime":776.234,"endTime":777.158,"body":"what are you, a migrant?"},{"startTime":777.194,"endTime":778.274,"body":"You are not a migrant."},{"startTime":778.322,"endTime":780.31,"body":"They will have to store money from you."},{"startTime":780.42,"endTime":783.838,"body":"And if you add your citizen, they reduce the"},{"startTime":783.864,"endTime":787.2,"body":"money for you or they wouldn't take at all."},{"startTime":788.01,"endTime":791.242,"body":"So they're not really interested in security."},{"startTime":791.376,"endTime":793.238,"body":"They're just interested in extorting"},{"startTime":793.274,"endTime":795.85,"body":"money from the passengers. Yes, please."},{"startTime":795.96,"endTime":798.43,"body":"So we got to bamako."},{"startTime":799.05,"endTime":808.12,"body":"That was at midnight there, about."},{"startTime":809.17,"endTime":811.194,"body":"So that was when we arrived."},{"startTime":811.242,"endTime":816.95,"body":"And I called his nickname there is Taller"},{"startTime":817.33,"endTime":820.434,"body":"because he's very tall and a bit fat."},{"startTime":820.602,"endTime":822.41,"body":"And when you get to Bamaco,"},{"startTime":822.91,"endTime":825.026,"body":"how many migrants would you say?"},{"startTime":825.208,"endTime":826.54,"body":"100,000."},{"startTime":827.11,"endTime":831.23,"body":"The first bar stop, there were a few I saw there."},{"startTime":831.4,"endTime":834.002,"body":"When Suleimana took me to his house,"},{"startTime":834.076,"endTime":835.862,"body":"I saw a lot of them there."},{"startTime":835.936,"endTime":838.19,"body":"And that same day, he took"},{"startTime":838.24,"endTime":840.138,"body":"me to a different bar station."},{"startTime":840.234,"endTime":844.24,"body":"And there were a lot of migrants, more than 400."},{"startTime":844.57,"endTime":847.062,"body":"And all the buses there that were setting"},{"startTime":847.086,"endTime":850.434,"body":"off all those buses were full of migrants."},{"startTime":850.542,"endTime":853.614,"body":"Every five minutes, a bus was set off with migrants."},{"startTime":853.662,"endTime":857.07,"body":"I was like, Is this busy, like, international airport?"},{"startTime":857.13,"endTime":858.818,"body":"Because I only know it to be"},{"startTime":858.844,"endTime":861.926,"body":"like international airport that a flight takes"},{"startTime":861.988,"endTime":865.094,"body":"off every five minutes or three minutes. Right."},{"startTime":865.132,"endTime":868.298,"body":"And these are all people from all"},{"startTime":868.384,"endTime":871.334,"body":"various different countries in West Africa? Yes."},{"startTime":871.432,"endTime":872.87,"body":"Some are from Liberia."},{"startTime":873.19,"endTime":874.794,"body":"Some are from Sri LAN."},{"startTime":874.902,"endTime":876.53,"body":"Some are from guinea."},{"startTime":876.97,"endTime":880.67,"body":"Some are from Gambia, Liberia,"},{"startTime":881.35,"endTime":885.59,"body":"Senegal, Cameroon and Ghana."},{"startTime":886.27,"endTime":889.466,"body":"And they're all trying to get to Europe? Yes, please."},{"startTime":889.528,"endTime":893.318,"body":"Even Nigeria? Yeah. Wow. Okay."},{"startTime":893.464,"endTime":896.87,"body":"And Suleimana, does he help you? What does he do?"},{"startTime":896.98,"endTime":901.022,"body":"So Suleimana took me to the next bus stop."},{"startTime":901.156,"endTime":904.178,"body":"So over there, Slimana told me that I have to"},{"startTime":904.204,"endTime":908.294,"body":"do payment of some money to be sent to his"},{"startTime":908.332,"endTime":911.63,"body":"boss at the north eastern part of Mali called Gal."},{"startTime":912.07,"endTime":915.554,"body":"So the money was given to him and he paid"},{"startTime":915.592,"endTime":919.382,"body":"it told us to pay additional money, which I paid."},{"startTime":919.456,"endTime":922.802,"body":"And when you are in Balanco, what they do is"},{"startTime":922.816,"endTime":926.078,"body":"that migrants that are not having the yellow vast card,"},{"startTime":926.224,"endTime":929.186,"body":"they tell them that they will do one for them."},{"startTime":929.308,"endTime":930.846,"body":"They will just go and print"},{"startTime":930.918,"endTime":933.83,"body":"their own fake yellow card fever."},{"startTime":934.75,"endTime":936.642,"body":"These are Vaccination cards."},{"startTime":936.786,"endTime":938.286,"body":"Yeah, this one is fake."},{"startTime":938.418,"endTime":940.25,"body":"He should buy slimana."},{"startTime":940.69,"endTime":942.4,"body":"So he prints his own."},{"startTime":942.91,"endTime":945.842,"body":"He has his own operation, yeah? Yes."},{"startTime":946.036,"endTime":947.858,"body":"So they print all this and"},{"startTime":947.884,"endTime":950.282,"body":"then we just write your name."},{"startTime":950.356,"endTime":953.02,"body":"I think it's original, but it's not."},{"startTime":953.41,"endTime":957.026,"body":"And because the security officials are also interested in money,"},{"startTime":957.088,"endTime":959.654,"body":"they do not just take their time to check."},{"startTime":959.692,"endTime":962.68,"body":"When they see that yellow, don't ask you."},{"startTime":964.03,"endTime":967.55,"body":"So they're part of the whole corrupt operation?"},{"startTime":968.11,"endTime":968.906,"body":"Yes, please."},{"startTime":968.968,"endTime":974.882,"body":"So I entered my bus and we were 75"},{"startTime":974.956,"endTime":978.738,"body":"people in that bus from all over West Africa."},{"startTime":978.774,"endTime":980.226,"body":"On all different countries?"},{"startTime":980.418,"endTime":981.738,"body":"Yes, different countries."},{"startTime":981.834,"endTime":985.098,"body":"So they took us to a different region."},{"startTime":985.194,"endTime":989.318,"body":"I think it was multi or several, that bus."},{"startTime":989.404,"endTime":992.5,"body":"We were more than 100 in that bus."},{"startTime":993.91,"endTime":994.754,"body":"Believe you me."},{"startTime":994.792,"endTime":999.52,"body":"I never sat on any feet until I got to go to this."},{"startTime":1000.33,"endTime":1002.158,"body":"So I was just standing in the"},{"startTime":1002.184,"endTime":1004.32,"body":"bath and I was forming them."},{"startTime":1005.01,"endTime":1007.534,"body":"They were so happy, Jubilating, that"},{"startTime":1007.572,"endTime":1008.894,"body":"they are heading to Gough."},{"startTime":1008.942,"endTime":1011.758,"body":"They'll be going to Europe and all other stuff."},{"startTime":1011.904,"endTime":1014.95,"body":"And the heat was unbearable. Wow."},{"startTime":1015.06,"endTime":1018.514,"body":"Because you're getting near the Sahara Desert now. Yes."},{"startTime":1018.612,"endTime":1020.698,"body":"So we continued and the security"},{"startTime":1020.784,"endTime":1023.842,"body":"officers started money again from us."},{"startTime":1023.976,"endTime":1026.46,"body":"And I secreted from them."},{"startTime":1028.47,"endTime":1031.582,"body":"So we got to go first."},{"startTime":1031.656,"endTime":1036.117,"body":"Border Checkpoint then, whilst we were communicating with"},{"startTime":1036.144,"endTime":1039.814,"body":"Suleimana on the phone, I took Suleimana phone"},{"startTime":1039.852,"endTime":1044.773,"body":"number, his time card, just to be communicating"},{"startTime":1044.821,"endTime":1046.222,"body":"with him, to record him."},{"startTime":1046.356,"endTime":1048.298,"body":"So that when I come home, the security and"},{"startTime":1048.324,"endTime":1051.374,"body":"intelligence will see how best would seem after arresting."},{"startTime":1051.542,"endTime":1054.874,"body":"So I have all those audios also with me."},{"startTime":1055.032,"endTime":1056.46,"body":"So we got to go."},{"startTime":1056.79,"endTime":1059.89,"body":"The brother, his boss, Mr."},{"startTime":1059.94,"endTime":1062.81,"body":"Sangari, he's the main boss."},{"startTime":1062.93,"endTime":1065.534,"body":"Human Traffickers Sangari?"},{"startTime":1065.702,"endTime":1067.13,"body":"Yes, Musa Sangari."},{"startTime":1067.19,"endTime":1068.654,"body":"So they're part of the whole network."},{"startTime":1068.702,"endTime":1071.314,"body":"So you think that these people are"},{"startTime":1071.352,"endTime":1075.058,"body":"helping you, but they're really trafficking you? Yes."},{"startTime":1075.144,"endTime":1078.214,"body":"So I told them that I have to"},{"startTime":1078.252,"endTime":1080.422,"body":"influence them before they give me this."},{"startTime":1080.616,"endTime":1083.086,"body":"I told them to please give it to me."},{"startTime":1083.268,"endTime":1086.074,"body":"I would like to send it to my brothers at home."},{"startTime":1086.112,"endTime":1089.746,"body":"They also like to come to use the same route. Right."},{"startTime":1089.928,"endTime":1091.858,"body":"But I just needed their contact when"},{"startTime":1091.884,"endTime":1093.67,"body":"I come home to be arrested."},{"startTime":1094.05,"endTime":1095.218,"body":"So they gave it to me."},{"startTime":1095.244,"endTime":1098.098,"body":"But their main boss, Musa Sangari, hardly gives his"},{"startTime":1098.124,"endTime":1102.48,"body":"complimentary card, but he only gives his phone number."},{"startTime":1103.29,"endTime":1105.54,"body":"So I still had his phone number."},{"startTime":1106.29,"endTime":1109.258,"body":"So when we got to the border, he"},{"startTime":1109.284,"endTime":1111.48,"body":"came and took us to his house."},{"startTime":1113.13,"endTime":1117.614,"body":"And as the driver, was bringing us to Gal."},{"startTime":1117.662,"endTime":1121.26,"body":"There were two female Nigerians in that bar too."},{"startTime":1121.59,"endTime":1125.65,"body":"So when we go to Gal, we go to Musa Sangari house."},{"startTime":1125.76,"endTime":1128.686,"body":"They separated the women from us to a different place"},{"startTime":1128.808,"endTime":1132.082,"body":"and read the men somewhere in Musa Sangari house."},{"startTime":1132.156,"endTime":1137.11,"body":"And some were also sent to different place to sleep."},{"startTime":1137.85,"endTime":1140.198,"body":"When we got there, Musa Sangari,"},{"startTime":1140.234,"endTime":1142.09,"body":"I saw him, it's very fair."},{"startTime":1142.2,"endTime":1145.15,"body":"His fats, with a big stomach, with"},{"startTime":1145.2,"endTime":1147.18,"body":"a round hair, with big eyes."},{"startTime":1148.05,"endTime":1153.718,"body":"So we entered his compound and just like I counted more"},{"startTime":1153.744,"endTime":1160.19,"body":"than 450 migrants in his house just sitting on the floor"},{"startTime":1160.25,"endTime":1165.862,"body":"or standing around, there were benches, some were sitting on a"},{"startTime":1165.876,"endTime":1168.814,"body":"wall, some were sitting on a bench, some were sitting on"},{"startTime":1168.852,"endTime":1171.394,"body":"the floor, some were sitting on a mat."},{"startTime":1171.552,"endTime":1175.462,"body":"So now after the money, the money was paid, I think"},{"startTime":1175.596,"endTime":1183.554,"body":"that was $45,000 when we go to Mosa Sangari house."},{"startTime":1183.712,"endTime":1185.822,"body":"So when we've got there, everything"},{"startTime":1185.896,"endTime":1187.67,"body":"in the house is for sale."},{"startTime":1188.35,"endTime":1190.48,"body":"To bath, you have to buy the water."},{"startTime":1191.11,"endTime":1192.854,"body":"To eat, you have to buy the food"},{"startTime":1192.892,"endTime":1196.082,"body":"yourself, despite you paid for all those things."},{"startTime":1196.276,"endTime":1199.154,"body":"And after everybody finished eating, there"},{"startTime":1199.192,"endTime":1202.466,"body":"remaining leftover food in the plate. Mr."},{"startTime":1202.588,"endTime":1206.178,"body":"Sangari wife intentionally let their animals, their ship"},{"startTime":1206.214,"endTime":1208.61,"body":"and go to Intention, come and leak the"},{"startTime":1208.66,"endTime":1211.706,"body":"food in the gold before they wash it."},{"startTime":1211.888,"endTime":1214.346,"body":"After that, they use that same plate to"},{"startTime":1214.408,"endTime":1217.3,"body":"sell food for the migrants to eat."},{"startTime":1217.81,"endTime":1222.35,"body":"So on that day reflects on the next day, mr."},{"startTime":1222.4,"endTime":1225.314,"body":"Musa Sangari left and returned hours later with three"},{"startTime":1225.352,"endTime":1229.854,"body":"more travelers, all females, and heading to Algeria."},{"startTime":1229.902,"endTime":1235.958,"body":"On April 2017, we were heading to Algeria and all the"},{"startTime":1235.984,"endTime":1240.954,"body":"migrants were so happy that we are heading to Algeria."},{"startTime":1241.062,"endTime":1244.478,"body":"So when we left Musa Sangari house, he"},{"startTime":1244.504,"endTime":1247.554,"body":"took a different house with a different vehicle."},{"startTime":1247.662,"endTime":1249.146,"body":"It was in the evening, around"},{"startTime":1249.268,"endTime":1252.58,"body":"1516 GMT, around that time."},{"startTime":1253.15,"endTime":1255.234,"body":"So we went to that big compound yard"},{"startTime":1255.282,"endTime":1262.078,"body":"and I saw white people with pistol."},{"startTime":1262.234,"endTime":1264.39,"body":"They mentioned everyone's name."},{"startTime":1264.56,"endTime":1266.466,"body":"If they mention your name, it means"},{"startTime":1266.588,"endTime":1268.47,"body":"you have to enter the truck."},{"startTime":1269.03,"endTime":1270.834,"body":"So they asked me for my name."},{"startTime":1270.932,"endTime":1272.814,"body":"I told them my name is"},{"startTime":1272.852,"endTime":1275.866,"body":"Mohammed and they wrote Mohammed."},{"startTime":1275.938,"endTime":1279.81,"body":"When I did the payment and the truck,"},{"startTime":1280.31,"endTime":1283.954,"body":"we were 75 people, including two female Nigerians."},{"startTime":1284.002,"endTime":1286.258,"body":"Now you're in the desert, right? You're in the Sahara?"},{"startTime":1286.294,"endTime":1286.95,"body":"Yes. Please."},{"startTime":1287.06,"endTime":1290.286,"body":"It must be extremely hot. Yes."},{"startTime":1290.408,"endTime":1293.274,"body":"So when we're setting up, they make sure"},{"startTime":1293.312,"endTime":1298.278,"body":"that the security officers will not know that"},{"startTime":1298.364,"endTime":1302.634,"body":"they are taking migrants out of the country. Okay?"},{"startTime":1302.792,"endTime":1304.89,"body":"So they always observe around that"},{"startTime":1304.94,"endTime":1307.974,"body":"time and they use Unapproved. Okay."},{"startTime":1308.012,"endTime":1313.726,"body":"So there's UN security in the area. In Gal? In Gal."},{"startTime":1313.798,"endTime":1316.09,"body":"But they avoid them on purpose."},{"startTime":1316.27,"endTime":1317.43,"body":"Yeah, they avoid them."},{"startTime":1317.48,"endTime":1321.142,"body":"They are purpose because of the reboot in Malley."},{"startTime":1321.166,"endTime":1322.83,"body":"So they are there for peacekeeping."},{"startTime":1323.99,"endTime":1326.634,"body":"So because they are also into this kind of"},{"startTime":1326.792,"endTime":1331.014,"body":"illegal activities, they try their best to make sure"},{"startTime":1331.052,"endTime":1334.63,"body":"that nobody sees them when they are taking migrants."},{"startTime":1334.69,"endTime":1338.814,"body":"Because UN security officers are in Gow, so"},{"startTime":1338.852,"endTime":1340.614,"body":"they have a time to do that."},{"startTime":1340.652,"endTime":1343.7,"body":"And that was the time they made us to set off that day."},{"startTime":1344.15,"endTime":1347.96,"body":"So we started taking off and it was like"},{"startTime":1349.13,"endTime":1351.934,"body":"everybody was happy that they are going to Europe."},{"startTime":1351.982,"endTime":1352.882,"body":"The migrants."},{"startTime":1352.966,"endTime":1354.57,"body":"Yeah, we're getting closer."},{"startTime":1356.27,"endTime":1357.426,"body":"They were so happy."},{"startTime":1357.488,"endTime":1360.094,"body":"They were singing, they were dancing."},{"startTime":1360.202,"endTime":1363.15,"body":"Some were playing different music at the background."},{"startTime":1363.71,"endTime":1366.25,"body":"As we're going, darkness started approaching."},{"startTime":1366.31,"endTime":1368.118,"body":"And before we took off, another"},{"startTime":1368.204,"endTime":1370.446,"body":"track also took off with us."},{"startTime":1370.568,"endTime":1372.646,"body":"But that track used a different route"},{"startTime":1372.718,"endTime":1374.97,"body":"and we also used a different route."},{"startTime":1375.47,"endTime":1380.06,"body":"So when darkness started approaching them, we got there and"},{"startTime":1380.87,"endTime":1387.56,"body":"it was like we saw people stopping the driver and"},{"startTime":1387.89,"endTime":1392.79,"body":"we have to get down when the truck stopped."},{"startTime":1393.47,"endTime":1394.51,"body":"Just in the dark."},{"startTime":1394.57,"endTime":1395.59,"body":"In the complete dark."},{"startTime":1395.65,"endTime":1397.782,"body":"Darkness in the complete dark, yeah."},{"startTime":1397.856,"endTime":1401.982,"body":"So he drove like, a few hours, and it"},{"startTime":1401.996,"endTime":1406.05,"body":"was not 2 hours and darkness had already fallen."},{"startTime":1407.03,"endTime":1409.76,"body":"He stops in the desert. Yes."},{"startTime":1410.33,"endTime":1415.966,"body":"So we stopped and I saw people wearing military"},{"startTime":1416.158,"endTime":1421.078,"body":"uniform holding a K 47 raffles and pistols."},{"startTime":1421.114,"endTime":1423.98,"body":"And they told us to line up"},{"startTime":1425.15,"endTime":1428.0,"body":"in two different lane and line up."},{"startTime":1428.39,"endTime":1433.17,"body":"They started searching as, telling us to pay money."},{"startTime":1433.34,"endTime":1439.686,"body":"So each person paid the amount they want, and we did."},{"startTime":1439.748,"endTime":1444.846,"body":"But I hid my money and told them, I don't have again."},{"startTime":1444.968,"endTime":1450.966,"body":"My grand took a Quran, begged the rebels, and they"},{"startTime":1451.028,"endTime":1455.13,"body":"kept him on the ground, used a metaphor to hit"},{"startTime":1455.18,"endTime":1459.21,"body":"his chest, and blood was coming from their mouth."},{"startTime":1460.67,"endTime":1463.074,"body":"Then everybody was laying out those"},{"startTime":1463.112,"endTime":1464.466,"body":"who are not, who couldn't pay."},{"startTime":1464.528,"endTime":1466.914,"body":"They seized my back because I did not"},{"startTime":1466.952,"endTime":1471.03,"body":"pay, leaving only my pullover with me."},{"startTime":1471.14,"endTime":1473.96,"body":"So I have to use my pullover as my back."},{"startTime":1474.71,"endTime":1478.002,"body":"Two female Nigerians were gang ripped and"},{"startTime":1478.016,"endTime":1482.202,"body":"there were seven rebels gang raped. Yes. Oh, my God."},{"startTime":1482.276,"endTime":1482.658,"body":"Yeah."},{"startTime":1482.744,"endTime":1485.038,"body":"Over the seven rebels gang"},{"startTime":1485.074,"endTime":1487.09,"body":"rape the two female Nigerians."},{"startTime":1487.21,"endTime":1489.586,"body":"These are Aswat rebels."},{"startTime":1489.778,"endTime":1491.84,"body":"Azawad rebels? Yes."},{"startTime":1493.73,"endTime":1498.378,"body":"When Azatang arrived in Mali in 2017, that country was"},{"startTime":1498.404,"endTime":1501.354,"body":"in the throes of a violent civil war that it"},{"startTime":1501.392,"endTime":1505.434,"body":"started in 2012 and pitted the Malian government in the"},{"startTime":1505.472,"endTime":1508.698,"body":"south against the Turik people in the north who were"},{"startTime":1508.724,"endTime":1511.65,"body":"fighting to establish an independent homeland."},{"startTime":1512.03,"endTime":1515.538,"body":"They called the region they controlled Azawat and"},{"startTime":1515.564,"endTime":1518.838,"body":"the armed organization fighting to defend it, the"},{"startTime":1518.864,"endTime":1521.85,"body":"National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad."},{"startTime":1522.47,"endTime":1524.838,"body":"Some Azowad rebels wanted to build a"},{"startTime":1524.864,"endTime":1527.97,"body":"secular, independent state in northern Mali."},{"startTime":1528.29,"endTime":1531.658,"body":"Others were affiliated with ISIS and determined"},{"startTime":1531.694,"endTime":1534.56,"body":"to unite Mali under Sharia law."},{"startTime":1535.07,"endTime":1538.206,"body":"As Azatang learned, they now controlled a large"},{"startTime":1538.268,"endTime":1541.326,"body":"swath of northern and central Mali and made"},{"startTime":1541.388,"endTime":1544.018,"body":"money robbing migrants and selling them to sex"},{"startTime":1544.054,"endTime":1546.69,"body":"traffickers or into slave labor."},{"startTime":1547.25,"endTime":1551.898,"body":"When Azatang had left Ghana in April 2017, he took"},{"startTime":1551.924,"endTime":1555.74,"body":"his life savings with him, a little over one, $200."},{"startTime":1556.19,"endTime":1559.842,"body":"Now, one week later, he had spent more than 300"},{"startTime":1559.916,"endTime":1563.494,"body":"in bribes to pass through over a dozen armed checkpoints,"},{"startTime":1563.662,"endTime":1567.906,"body":"75 for a fake vaccination certificate, and was now being"},{"startTime":1567.968,"endTime":1571.41,"body":"asked for another 400 for the bus ride north."},{"startTime":1571.79,"endTime":1573.366,"body":"The smuggler he was working"},{"startTime":1573.428,"endTime":1576.55,"body":"with Suleimana warned him ominously."},{"startTime":1576.67,"endTime":1579.198,"body":"Prepare for your cash to run out and"},{"startTime":1579.224,"endTime":1581.25,"body":"to call home to ask for more."},{"startTime":1581.42,"endTime":1583.88,"body":"The road is all about money."},{"startTime":1586.53,"endTime":1589.982,"body":"So after the gang ripped, we entered"},{"startTime":1590.006,"endTime":1594.78,"body":"the truck and we continued again."},{"startTime":1595.29,"endTime":1601.346,"body":"So we continued to the second checkpoint."},{"startTime":1601.478,"endTime":1608.194,"body":"And also before the second checkpoint were going."},{"startTime":1608.292,"endTime":1611.278,"body":"And I started to think of music in my mind."},{"startTime":1611.364,"endTime":1615.994,"body":"And I was playing Don Williams song in my mind. 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Wow."},{"startTime":1669.192,"endTime":1670.706,"body":"So they had good supplies."},{"startTime":1670.778,"endTime":1672.586,"body":"They had supplies, yes."},{"startTime":1672.648,"endTime":1675.838,"body":"So the second reverse checkpoint, we saw that"},{"startTime":1675.864,"endTime":1679.198,"body":"they cut human beings had mounted them on"},{"startTime":1679.224,"endTime":1682.13,"body":"sticks, and you could see house flies."},{"startTime":1682.31,"endTime":1684.95,"body":"The second railway checkpoint, they were gang raped."},{"startTime":1685.01,"endTime":1686.918,"body":"The two female legends were gang ripped."},{"startTime":1686.954,"endTime":1689.83,"body":"Again, the access to pay additional money."},{"startTime":1689.88,"endTime":1693.61,"body":"Again, it continued to the third checkpoint."},{"startTime":1694.05,"endTime":1699.05,"body":"And it took us two days from Gal to Alkali."},{"startTime":1699.23,"endTime":1702.13,"body":"So when we go to the third rebel checkpoint,"},{"startTime":1702.87,"endTime":1707.52,"body":"most of the rebels came close to us, and"},{"startTime":1708.27,"endTime":1712.538,"body":"they were with motors on Motobikes, we saw vehicles."},{"startTime":1712.574,"endTime":1713.954,"body":"They were holding pistols."},{"startTime":1714.002,"endTime":1716.29,"body":"They were holding April for seven raffles."},{"startTime":1716.67,"endTime":1719.698,"body":"We saw camels there."},{"startTime":1719.784,"endTime":1722.218,"body":"And they were like, everybody has"},{"startTime":1722.244,"endTime":1723.706,"body":"to pay this amount of money."},{"startTime":1723.768,"endTime":1728.59,"body":"If you do not pay, you are going to be killed."},{"startTime":1729.57,"endTime":1734.122,"body":"So everybody has to pay that amount of money."},{"startTime":1734.316,"endTime":1737.134,"body":"And they told us, Algeria is not far"},{"startTime":1737.172,"endTime":1740.27,"body":"from where we are, so we shouldn't worry."},{"startTime":1740.45,"endTime":1742.222,"body":"We were going and we got"},{"startTime":1742.296,"endTime":1745.454,"body":"another community, like a village."},{"startTime":1745.502,"endTime":1749.4,"body":"And the driver drove around one house three times,"},{"startTime":1750.15,"endTime":1753.79,"body":"and he stopped at once, and there was dust."},{"startTime":1754.77,"endTime":1757.43,"body":"So we heard people screaming"},{"startTime":1757.55,"endTime":1759.78,"body":"coming, and they were happy."},{"startTime":1760.71,"endTime":1764.182,"body":"We got down and they separated the females from s."},{"startTime":1764.256,"endTime":1767.098,"body":"And it was like they took us to"},{"startTime":1767.124,"endTime":1770.29,"body":"one room, and it was very horrible."},{"startTime":1771.15,"endTime":1773.626,"body":"A lot of migrants were already"},{"startTime":1773.688,"endTime":1777.37,"body":"there, were dead were there. 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Yes."},{"startTime":1829.164,"endTime":1832.93,"body":"And the share border street, Malikalyo."},{"startTime":1833.73,"endTime":1834.982,"body":"So we were there."},{"startTime":1835.116,"endTime":1836.71,"body":"They gave someone number."},{"startTime":1836.76,"endTime":1839.234,"body":"The money have to be paid into the person's"},{"startTime":1839.282,"endTime":1843.77,"body":"account by our families before you could enter Algeria."},{"startTime":1843.83,"endTime":1844.834,"body":"Boge. Wow."},{"startTime":1844.872,"endTime":1847.798,"body":"So you're basically hostages. 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okay."},{"startTime":2519.11,"endTime":2522.81,"body":"I slept the next day all my"},{"startTime":2522.86,"endTime":2526.65,"body":"feet were swollen, I couldn't walk well."},{"startTime":2526.7,"endTime":2529.76,"body":"I was like, I have to leave."},{"startTime":2530.57,"endTime":2533.694,"body":"So it was that Second Coming to"},{"startTime":2533.732,"endTime":2537.562,"body":"El Kalilo that deceased my spectacle?"},{"startTime":2537.706,"endTime":2539.982,"body":"Yeah, yes."},{"startTime":2540.176,"endTime":2544.014,"body":"So the Second Coming, there were other things going on."},{"startTime":2544.052,"endTime":2544.866,"body":"I firm them."},{"startTime":2544.928,"endTime":2547.698,"body":"So when I was filming and I wore the"},{"startTime":2547.724,"endTime":2550.4,"body":"spectacle camera, this was how I wore it."},{"startTime":2551.09,"endTime":2553.58,"body":"So when I wore it this way and then"},{"startTime":2553.91,"endTime":2557.574,"body":"one of the rebels saw me, it was 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food."},{"startTime":3412.09,"endTime":3414.902,"body":"Most people ignored him or pushed him away."},{"startTime":3415.096,"endTime":3418.602,"body":"He was even turned away from his own Ghanian embassy."},{"startTime":3418.746,"endTime":3420.806,"body":"They wouldn't even give him water."},{"startTime":3420.988,"endTime":3423.82,"body":"He was turned away at the British Embassy too."},{"startTime":3424.27,"endTime":3426.878,"body":"On the verge of starvation, he approached a"},{"startTime":3426.904,"endTime":3430.574,"body":"young Algerian law student named Hussein and told"},{"startTime":3430.612,"endTime":3434.39,"body":"him about his journey, secret spectacles and investigation."},{"startTime":3434.89,"endTime":3438.47,"body":"This good Samaritan bought Azatang food and water,"},{"startTime":3438.64,"endTime":3441.014,"body":"drove him to a bus terminal and gave"},{"startTime":3441.052,"endTime":3446.26,"body":"him 35,000 dinars, roughly $300 to return home."},{"startTime":3448.03,"endTime":3451.49,"body":"So I got home, I gathered all my evidence."},{"startTime":3452.11,"endTime":3456.906,"body":"I saved the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I serve."},{"startTime":3456.978,"endTime":3458.68,"body":"Ghana Immigration Service."},{"startTime":3459.13,"endTime":3462.122,"body":"I serve all the right units in"},{"startTime":3462.136,"endTime":3464.8,"body":"Ghana that are into human trafficking issues."},{"startTime":3465.73,"endTime":3468.086,"body":"Believe you me, none of them did nothing."},{"startTime":3468.208,"endTime":3470.282,"body":"So you're back in Ghana, you go to"},{"startTime":3470.296,"endTime":3473.87,"body":"the Ghanian authorities and they're not helpful."},{"startTime":3474.37,"endTime":3475.77,"body":"They never helped."},{"startTime":3475.89,"endTime":3477.558,"body":"It was only IOM."},{"startTime":3477.714,"endTime":3479.93,"body":"International Organization for Migration."},{"startTime":3480.25,"endTime":3481.154,"body":"I served them."},{"startTime":3481.192,"endTime":3483.794,"body":"They also did inform those people I"},{"startTime":3483.832,"endTime":3487.278,"body":"saved them, especially the British National Crime"},{"startTime":3487.314,"endTime":3490.746,"body":"Agency and the US officials."},{"startTime":3490.818,"endTime":3495.302,"body":"And I even went to Minister of Foreign Affairs when"},{"startTime":3495.316,"endTime":3497.69,"body":"I saved them for follow ups, they told me that"},{"startTime":3497.74,"endTime":3500.93,"body":"documents have broken them, she bring another one."},{"startTime":3500.98,"endTime":3502.48,"body":"I did not mind them."},{"startTime":3504.85,"endTime":3505.6,"body":"Crazy."},{"startTime":3506.65,"endTime":3508.118,"body":"So what happens now?"},{"startTime":3508.204,"endTime":3511.65,"body":"So you've got the documents, you've copied all these packets"},{"startTime":3511.71,"endTime":3515.054,"body":"of documents, you're serving them to the different people, the"},{"startTime":3515.092,"endTime":3520.934,"body":"Guy government is not interested in the case and you"},{"startTime":3520.972,"endTime":3523.12,"body":"must be losing hope at this point."},{"startTime":3523.93,"endTime":3527.414,"body":"I really lost hope because I really went through"},{"startTime":3527.452,"endTime":3533.454,"body":"a lot to even save the documents, until the"},{"startTime":3533.492,"endTime":3539.17,"body":"British Embassy, the Security Intelligence, the British National Crime"},{"startTime":3539.23,"endTime":3542.55,"body":"Agency called me to meet them at the office."},{"startTime":3542.66,"endTime":3545.862,"body":"I met them and I spoke to them."},{"startTime":3545.936,"endTime":3546.954,"body":"There were two people."},{"startTime":3547.052,"endTime":3549.51,"body":"We have Neil Boat and Freddie Koper."},{"startTime":3550.31,"endTime":3552.56,"body":"They were nice to really meet them."},{"startTime":3553.13,"endTime":3555.558,"body":"I sat down, they asked me if I"},{"startTime":3555.584,"endTime":3558.942,"body":"could take water and I said yes."},{"startTime":3559.016,"endTime":3561.43,"body":"They asked me if I would like to take tea or coffee."},{"startTime":3561.49,"endTime":3564.44,"body":"I said, any of them, I like it."},{"startTime":3565.49,"endTime":3568.87,"body":"So they served me all this and they added biscuits."},{"startTime":3568.93,"endTime":3572.034,"body":"And after that, they asked me questions."},{"startTime":3572.192,"endTime":3577.16,"body":"How I found the project, who sent me, why I did it."},{"startTime":3577.85,"endTime":3583.074,"body":"And they told me that what I'm presenting to them,"},{"startTime":3583.172,"endTime":3586.29,"body":"they want the truth and nothing else but the truth."},{"startTime":3587.09,"endTime":3590.31,"body":"If it's a lie, it's going to create a lot of problems."},{"startTime":3590.42,"endTime":3592.89,"body":"And I told them that it's the truth."},{"startTime":3593.39,"endTime":3596.934,"body":"If they want, they can let me be"},{"startTime":3596.972,"endTime":3599.638,"body":"with them until they finish the investigations."},{"startTime":3599.734,"endTime":3603.5,"body":"If it's not true, they can join me."},{"startTime":3604.73,"endTime":3609.318,"body":"And Neil and his colleagues smiled and"},{"startTime":3609.404,"endTime":3612.57,"body":"said, no problem to work on it."},{"startTime":3612.62,"endTime":3617.218,"body":"So they told me to mail them a copy of my scripts."},{"startTime":3617.314,"endTime":3620.394,"body":"I also gave them the videos I had"},{"startTime":3620.492,"endTime":3626.362,"body":"to Le Mana, Musa Sangari, Tyson, Abu Bakarikoning,"},{"startTime":3626.446,"endTime":3630.478,"body":"all the gang, human traffickers and smugglers."},{"startTime":3630.514,"endTime":3633.258,"body":"And they went through them."},{"startTime":3633.344,"endTime":3636.018,"body":"They called me again to the office and when"},{"startTime":3636.044,"endTime":3640.1,"body":"I went, they had the most important key part"},{"startTime":3641.03,"endTime":3645.75,"body":"and they told me the project is progressing."},{"startTime":3650.61,"endTime":3653.674,"body":"They worked on it, they went to Mali, went"},{"startTime":3653.712,"endTime":3658.81,"body":"to UK, made their officials and the team up."},{"startTime":3658.86,"endTime":3663.13,"body":"And God being so good, one day I was there"},{"startTime":3663.18,"endTime":3666.682,"body":"and they called me to come to the office."},{"startTime":3666.756,"endTime":3668.518,"body":"How much later is this now?"},{"startTime":3668.664,"endTime":3670.98,"body":"Five, six months later. Wow."},{"startTime":3671.31,"endTime":3673.97,"body":"So it took them a long time to do the investigation."},{"startTime":3674.09,"endTime":3677.566,"body":"It took them a long time and they called me."},{"startTime":3677.628,"endTime":3680.374,"body":"It was Freddie Copper who called me."},{"startTime":3680.532,"endTime":3684.166,"body":"Copper called me and I went to the office."},{"startTime":3684.228,"endTime":3690.25,"body":"But then Neil had left for UK and I went and he told"},{"startTime":3690.3,"endTime":3695.902,"body":"me he's having a good news and a bad news for me."},{"startTime":3695.976,"endTime":3697.642,"body":"And he even told me Neil will be in"},{"startTime":3697.656,"endTime":3699.934,"body":"the office that day, he will be returning from"},{"startTime":3699.972,"endTime":3703.558,"body":"UK and he'll be in that day."},{"startTime":3703.584,"endTime":3707.026,"body":"So we spoke and he told me, the"},{"startTime":3707.148,"endTime":3711.97,"body":"good news is that they've arrested the traffickers."},{"startTime":3713.31,"endTime":3714.974,"body":"So I have to be very proud"},{"startTime":3715.022,"endTime":3718.174,"body":"of myself for what I've done."},{"startTime":3718.272,"endTime":3719.71,"body":"That's fantastic."},{"startTime":3720.15,"endTime":3723.062,"body":"The bad news is that he, Freddy"},{"startTime":3723.086,"endTime":3726.194,"body":"Copper, will be transferred to Washington DC."},{"startTime":3726.242,"endTime":3728.258,"body":"Note that he doesn't like Ghana."},{"startTime":3728.414,"endTime":3730.69,"body":"Yeah, he was just being transferred,"},{"startTime":3731.07,"endTime":3733.166,"body":"so he'll be going to Washington."},{"startTime":3733.238,"endTime":3736.87,"body":"So once I do communicate with him on his mail"},{"startTime":3737.61,"endTime":3743.162,"body":"and I do communicate with him on WhatsApp fantastic."},{"startTime":3743.306,"endTime":3745.454,"body":"But the traffickers were arrested."},{"startTime":3745.622,"endTime":3748.834,"body":"Yes, he told me they were arrested and they were sent"},{"startTime":3748.872,"endTime":3756.13,"body":"to jail and they told me to work on my statements."},{"startTime":3756.81,"endTime":3759.238,"body":"Senior Marlin police Officer becoming for"},{"startTime":3759.264,"endTime":3761.266,"body":"my statements and other stuff."},{"startTime":3761.388,"endTime":3763.222,"body":"So this was how they taught me to"},{"startTime":3763.236,"endTime":3764.614,"body":"do it and I worked on it."},{"startTime":3764.652,"endTime":3768.694,"body":"You can see prosecution, so I worked on it."},{"startTime":3768.792,"endTime":3771.11,"body":"This is for the Malian officials?"},{"startTime":3771.29,"endTime":3773.11,"body":"Yes, for the Mali to make a"},{"startTime":3773.16,"endTime":3777.12,"body":"case against Suleiman and these other people? Yes."},{"startTime":3778.41,"endTime":3784.318,"body":"When I did this for them, I gave it to them."},{"startTime":3784.404,"endTime":3789.898,"body":"The British National Crime Agency prepared the statement on"},{"startTime":3789.924,"endTime":3794.94,"body":"their own logo file with a logo on it."},{"startTime":3796.77,"endTime":3802.298,"body":"UK government official reports dockets bearing their logo"},{"startTime":3802.454,"endTime":3806.638,"body":"and their details and they handed everything to"},{"startTime":3806.664,"endTime":3810.058,"body":"them and the arrest was made."},{"startTime":3810.144,"endTime":3813.01,"body":"They were looking up quotes and all"},{"startTime":3813.06,"endTime":3816.214,"body":"those stuff and then finally everything went"},{"startTime":3816.252,"endTime":3820.63,"body":"through and they jeweled them in. Jewel."},{"startTime":3821.91,"endTime":3825.418,"body":"Once back in Ghana, Azatang made copies of"},{"startTime":3825.444,"endTime":3828.698,"body":"the evidence he had collected video footage, tape"},{"startTime":3828.734,"endTime":3832.838,"body":"recordings with human traffickers, meticulous journals and records"},{"startTime":3832.934,"endTime":3835.054,"body":"and put them into packets that he hand"},{"startTime":3835.092,"endTime":3838.742,"body":"delivered to various UN offices in Okra, Ghani"},{"startTime":3838.766,"endTime":3842.29,"body":"and Ministries and UK and US Embassies."},{"startTime":3842.79,"endTime":3845.482,"body":"He waited months and had almost given up hope"},{"startTime":3845.556,"endTime":3848.1,"body":"when he received two calls in the same week."},{"startTime":3848.43,"endTime":3851.218,"body":"One from the US Embassy and one from the"},{"startTime":3851.244,"endTime":3854.77,"body":"British National Crime Agency, whose job was to help"},{"startTime":3854.82,"endTime":3858.878,"body":"local law enforcement agencies, police major crimes like drug"},{"startTime":3858.914,"endTime":3862.33,"body":"smuggling, modern slavery and human trafficking."},{"startTime":3862.83,"endTime":3865.802,"body":"BNCA officers Neil Abbott and Freddie"},{"startTime":3865.826,"endTime":3868.786,"body":"Kalper spent weeks carefully going over"},{"startTime":3868.848,"endTime":3871.81,"body":"Azatang story and all his evidence."},{"startTime":3872.31,"endTime":3874.678,"body":"Three months later, they summoned him back to"},{"startTime":3874.704,"endTime":3877.874,"body":"the BNC office to report that his evidence"},{"startTime":3877.922,"endTime":3880.33,"body":"had resulted in the arrests of several human"},{"startTime":3880.38,"endTime":3885.002,"body":"traffickers and had sparked investigations in Algeria, Mali"},{"startTime":3885.086,"endTime":3888.85,"body":"and Burkino FASU azatang was elated."},{"startTime":3889.23,"endTime":3893.47,"body":"His investigation, which had lasted 120 days and"},{"startTime":3893.52,"endTime":3897.118,"body":"covered over 6000 miles and almost cost him"},{"startTime":3897.144,"endTime":3899.47,"body":"his life, had not been in vain."},{"startTime":3900.09,"endTime":3903.818,"body":"We thank Azatang for his good heart, superhuman"},{"startTime":3903.854,"endTime":3907.02,"body":"courage and for sharing his amazing story."},{"startTime":3907.41,"endTime":3909.85,"body":"We're extremely honored to call him"},{"startTime":3909.9,"endTime":3912.91,"body":"today's hero behind the headlines."},{"startTime":3913.89,"endTime":3914.966,"body":"Thanks for listening."},{"startTime":3915.038,"endTime":3916.994,"body":"I'm your host, Ralph Pazulo."},{"startTime":3917.102,"endTime":3920.974,"body":"Our producers are myself, Frank Hobbs, and Apex Media."},{"startTime":3921.072,"endTime":3925.322,"body":"If you haven't already, please download, rate, review and subscribe"},{"startTime":3925.466,"endTime":3928.498,"body":"and check out some of our past episodes, such as"},{"startTime":3928.584,"endTime":3931.538,"body":"Black Hawk Down and The Battle That Never Ends."},{"startTime":3931.634,"endTime":3933.202,"body":"And don't forget to tune in to"},{"startTime":3933.216,"endTime":3935.74,"body":"the next episode of Hero Response. 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