Court Jails Ex-policeman 3 Years For Human Trafficking

Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted and sentenced a former policeman, Ariwayo Oloyede Destiny, to three years imprisonment for human trafficking.

Justice Awogboro also sentenced a Burkina-Faso-based Nigerian, Christian Segun Owanebi, who has jumped bail, to seven years imprisonment for three counts charge of conspiracy and human trafficking brought against them by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP).

The convicted policeman, who resides at Block 337, Flat 2, Ilasan Estate, Lekki, Lagos, and his co-convict, whose address was given as Pagilaidi, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, were arraigned before the court by NAPTIP in 2014.

The two convicts were accused of conspiring with one another to procure a 19-year-old Onyinyechi, for prostitution in Burkina Faso.

The prosecutor, Barrister Chinedu Akaegbu, had told the court that the offences committed by the convicts were contrary to and punishable under sections 15a and 16 of the trafficking in person prohibition law enforcement and administration Act 2