A Borno State High Court has ordered a woman to pay N500,000 in compensation to a 16-year-old girl she was convicted of procuring for s3xual exploitation.
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) said the court, presided over by Justice Aisha M. Ndume, also sentenced the woman, 37-year-old Fatima Sanda, to two years’ imprisonment.
The agency said Sanda was convicted under Section 16(1) of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015, as amended. She was found to have procured the minor and subjected her to sexual exploitation by other persons.
NAPTIP secured the conviction at the court’s sitting in Maiduguri on Monday.
It came about a month after a Niger State High Court in Minna sentenced 27-year-old Hussaini Suleiman to seven years’ imprisonment for r@ping an eight-year-old girl at his residence.
NAPTIP said Suleiman pleaded guilty after the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps referred the case to its Niger State Command on April 16, 2026. He was arraigned on September 10, 2026.
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