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Couple bags 14 years jail term for human trafficking

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Justice Joyce Abdulmaleek of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, on Tuesday, sentenced a couple to 14 years imprisonment without an option of fine, for human trafficking.

Abdulmaleek convicted Idowu Folorunso, 37 and his wife, Titilayo, and sentenced them to seven years imprisonment each.

She said that the prosecution provided overwhelming oral, documentary and other substantial evidence against the couple.

“Therefore, Idowu and Titilayo are sentenced to seven years imprisonment each for count one, and seven years imprisonment for count two, without any option of fine and with hard labour.

“The sentences are, however, to run concurrently,” the judge said.

The judge held that Idowu and Titilayo lied to one Miss Bidemi Adeshina that there were teaching opportunities for girls in Libya and that she should utilise them since she had National Certificate of Education.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the couple wept as they prayed the court to temper justice with mercy.

NAN reports that Idowu and Titilayo were arraigned on a two-count charge of unlawful procurement of person and organising foreign trip for the purpose of prostitution.

The Folorunsos committed the crime on May 20, 2014, at Odo-Oba Elere, Ibadan, according to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other Related Matters (NAPTIP).

In her evidence earlier, Adeshina said that Idowu and Titilayo lured her into prostitution in Libya where she became infected with HIV/AIDS.

Adeshina testified that the couple told her that three other girls would be joining her for the teaching job in Libya.

She said that she travelled from Ibadan through Kano, to Niger to Libya and found herself in a “prostitution joint”.

The witness said that within eight months, the Folorunsos made her abort four pregnancies.

She added that she contracted HIV/AIDS.

She also said that the couple did not give her anything from the proceeds of her prostitution.

NAN reports that the offences contravened Sections 15 (a) (b) of the NAPTIP Act, 2004.

The offences are equally punishable under the section.

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