A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja presided over by Justice Inyang Ekwo, has convicted and sentenced a woman, Benedicta Usen, also known as Mrs Carol Omomoh, to a five-year imprisonment without option of fine for trafficking a lady for prostitution.
Justice Ekwo, while delivering the judgment, said the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt in respect of each and every allegation in the eight-count change.
The judge consequently sentenced Omomoh to two years and six months imprisonment each in counts one, three, five and seven without an option of fine.
He also sentenced her in counts two, four, six and eight to five years imprisonment each without an option of fine, just as he also ordered that all the jail terms must run concurrently with effect from February 3.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police had in a eight-count amended charge alleged that the defendant Omomoh conspired to commit the offence by recruiting and transporting Miss Cynthia Loveth Ese Omoieke to Italy through the UK by means of deception.
The offence, the prosecutor said, is punishable under Section 27 of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration, TPPEA, Act, 2015.
