Like Zuhier R. Akar the Lebanese national who last week bagged 14 years for se*ually assaulting two kano teenagers, Nasiru Isah will spend the next seven years in jail for sexually exploiting an 11 year old Kano girl, a Federal High Court Kano on Monday October 14 ruled .
Delivering judgment in an application filed by the Kano Zonal Office of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons NAPTIP, Hon Justice S.M Shu’aibu convicted Isah on the one count charge of se*ual abuse preferred against him .
Following his earlier guilty plea, the trial Judge, in addition to sentencing the accused to seven years in jail, also ordered that he should pay the sum of N1 million.
Justice Shu’aibu held that the prosecution had proven its case beyond any reasonable doubt.
The convict was sentenced without any option of fine .
The Prosecution Counsel,Abdullahi Babale had earlier told the Court that Malam Isah, a resident of Darmanawa Bayan Gida Kallo in Tarauni Local Government of Kano state committed the said offence on October 5, 2024 at same address.
The convict, according to the Prosecutor, lured the 11 year old into his bedroom, and on his matrimonial bed, se*ually abused and exploited her.
The defendant, according to the NAPTIP Zonal Coordinator, had carnal knowledge of the victim three times, once in the defendant’s bedroom, and twice at an uncompleted building.
“The defendant gave the victim bread, groundnut and N 20 before se*ually exploiting her”, the prosecutor stated.
In the course of the trial, the prosecutor tendered two main evidences which, also, included the confessional statement of the convict.
The other evidence was the victim’s oral testimony.
According to NAPTIP, the offence is in violation of the extant provisions of section 16 (1) of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Adminstration Act 2015, and is punishable under section 26 (1) the same Act.
Instructively, same Justice Shu’aibu had, last week, sentenced the Lebanese national to 14 years in jail for, also, se*ually exploiting two teenage girls aged 14 and 15 at his Gidan Wanka Unity road residence in the Commercial hub of the Northern region .
He was, also, sentenced without option of fine, and ordered to pay the N2 million in addition.
The Lebanese had also in the case prosecuted by Kano Zonal NAPTIP ,pleaded guilty to the offence ,which was committed on September 4 2024 .
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