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A Federal Excessive Courtroom in Kano on Friday sentenced a 78-year-old farmer, Dan’azumi Muhammad, to 5 years in jail for trying to sexually assault a seven-year-old woman.
Muhammad, who resides in Kumurya village in Bunkure Native Authorities Space of Kano State, was convicted on a one-count cost of procurement and tried sexual exploitation after pleading responsible.
Delivering the judgment, Justice S.M. Shuaibu mentioned the prosecution had proved its case past affordable doubt.
“I hereby sentence the convict to 5 years imprisonment with out an possibility of nice. It will function a deterrent to others as such circumstances have gotten prevalent,” the choose mentioned.
Prosecution counsel Hassan Nuruddeen of the Nationwide Company for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Individuals (NAPTIP) instructed the court docket that Muhammad dedicated the offence on July 18, when he lured the minor on her approach to faculty and dragged her into an area silo close to his house.
Nuruddeen offered the convict’s confessional assertion and the sufferer’s testimony as proof.
The prosecution mentioned the act violated Sections 29 and 16(1) of the Trafficking in Individuals (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act of 2015.
Defence counsel M.B. Isah pleaded for leniency, noting that Muhammad was a first-time offender.
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