A Federal High Court in Damaturu, Yobe State, has sentenced a 20-year-old man, Dauda Umaru, to seven years’ imprisonment for procuring and having sexual intercourse with a 16-year-old girl.
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons disclosed the conviction in a statement published on its official Facebook page on Wednesday.
In addition to the prison sentence, the court ordered Umaru to pay N1.5m, comprising N1m into the Victim Trust Fund Account and N500,000 as compensation to the victim.
The statement read, “A Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, Court 2, presided over by Hon. Justice Aisha Y. Salihu, has convicted Dauda Umaru (20, male) for procuring and having sexual intercourse with a 16-year-old female victim, contrary to Section 16(1) of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015, as amended.
“He was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment and ordered to pay N1,000,000 into the Victim Trust Fund Account and N500,000 as compensation to the victim.
“Failure to pay the fine will attract an additional seven months’ imprisonment.”
The conviction comes after another case involving the procurement of a minor for sexual exploitation.
The Punch had earlier reported that NAPTIP secured the conviction of 37-year-old Fatima Sanda, who received a two-year prison sentence for procuring a 16-year-old girl for sexual exploitation.
In that case, the presiding judge, Justice Aisha Ndume of the High Court of Justice, Court 10, also ordered Sanda to pay N500,000 in compensation to the victim.
