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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