Thursday 29 September 2016

59 Years Old Woman Jailed For 30 Years for human trafficking,While Another Jailed For 2 years for child exploitation



Ebunoluwa Bankole, 59, has been sentenced to 30 years imprisonment, by a Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, for the procurement and exportation of young Nigerian women to Libya for prostitution. She is also to pay a fine of N1m. .

Bankole, who was convicted on a six count charge, bagged five years for each count. The sentence would however, run concurrently. She was arrested by officers of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) following a petition dated 26th January, 2016.
She perpetrated the act with the connivance of her daughter Lateefat Sanni and son-in-law Muritala Sanni, who are both still at large and are reportedly still holding and exploiting Nigerian girls in Libya.
The petition reported that Bankole’s daughter and son-in-law who are based in Libya usually collected money ranging from the sum of N500, 000 to N1.5 million from their victims with promises of taking them to countries from where they could easily secure visas to either the U.K and U.S.
Also, a Federal High court sitting in Minna, Niger State, has sentenced Glory Abang to 2 years imprisonment for engaging a 12 year old child in activities that were exploitative, injurious or hazardous to her physical, social and psychologicaldevelopment.
Abang, a mother-of-three, was arrested by officers of NAPTIP, in July 2015. She took her half sister from Akwa Ibom State to Niger State under the pretext of sending her to school but engaged her in activities that were exploitative, including sleeping in a Poultry facility at her residence. The child was also not enrolled in school as promised.

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