Benue court sentences 18-year old man and woman, 40, to two years imprisonment for human trafficking

A Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi has condemned 18 year old Awua Mzehemen, male, and 40 year old Mbaikpeveyol Pius, female, to two years detainment each for human trafficking. 

The suspects were summoned by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), with the case number FHC/MKD/CR/25/18, for selecting three young fellows matured in the vicinity of 20 and 21 years for exploitative work. 

The young fellows were misleadingly enrolled by the primary blamed individual under the appearance for landing a position for them in a shop in Oyo state on a month to month pay. Notwithstanding, after achieving Oyo, the casualties were compelled to work in a ranch having a place with the second blamed and contracted out to work in other individuals' homesteads while the second denounced gathered their pay rates. 

Their endeavors to get away from the exploitative condition were defeated by the charged people twice, before they figured out how to caution the Nigerian Police, who thusly got NAPTIP associated with the case. 

The Prosecution contended that the demonstration is in opposition to Section 13(2)(b) of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015, as it adds up to exploitative work. 

Conveying the judgment after both blamed people confessed to the charge, the directing Judge, Hon. Equity Dikko Hassan summarily indicted and condemned them to 2 years detainment with an alternative of fine of 150, 000 naira each. 

The Director-General of NAPTIP, Dame Julie Okah-Donli, responding to the news complimented the Officers of the Nigerian Police Force for powerful organization in the save and exchange of the casualties. 

She used to chance to caution businesses against paying the wages of their representatives to an outsider or a specialist. This, she says is exploitative and powers human trafficking. 

As per her "each specialist should be paid his or her concurred compensation straightforwardly; paying to someone else who will probably pay the laborer a small amount of the wages, or not in any way, is similar to subjugation and it an offense".