Borno woman gets two years for trafficking a teenage girl

A Borno State High Court in Maiduguri has sentenced 37-year-old Fatima Sanda to two years in prison. She was found guilty of getting a 16-year-old girl for sexual exploitation.

PUNCH Metro learned on Wednesday that the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons secured the conviction on Monday.

NAPTIP said in a statement on its Facebook page that the court also ordered Sanda to pay N500,000 to the victim as compensation.

The statement explained, “A High Court of Justice, Court 10, sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State, presided over by Hon. Justice Aisha M. Ndume, has convicted Fatima Sanda (37, female) for procuring a 16-year-old female victim and subjecting her to sexual exploitation by other persons, contrary to Section 16(1) of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015, as amended.

“She was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and ordered to pay N500,000 in compensation to the victim.”