A Federal High Court in Kano, on Thursday sentenced a 28-year-old man, Abubakar Suleiman, to two years imprisonment for trafficking 30 women to Libya.
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP), charged Suleiman, who resides in Kadawa Miltara Quarters of Ungogo LGA of Kano, with one count of trafficking in persons.
Delivering judgment, Justice Sa’adatu Ibrahim-Mark, sentenced the convict without an option of fine.
Ibrahim-Mark ordered the convict to pay N250,000 in compensation.
Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Mr Abdullahi Babale told the court that the convict on Feb. 10, conspired with one Salele (a Nigerien) now at large, and transferred 30 woman from Edo and Lagos states to Niger Republic through Babura border in Jigawa, enroute Libya.
He said that the convict deducted N5,000 from each of the women from N50,000 paid per person from the sponsors in Libya and Niger Republic as commission,
Babale tendered the defendant’s statement and one of the victims statement as exhibit.
The defence Counsel, M.B. Isa, pleaded for leniency on behalf of his client as a first time offender. (NAN)
