20 women bag 6 months jail term for prostitution

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February 7, 2017 6:34 PM

Hajiya Umma Kurawa, in her sentence said the convicts should either go to jail or pay a fine of N20,000 each.

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A Kano Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday, sentenced Sandra Ada and 19 others to six months imprisonment for prostitution.

The convicts were sentenced on a one-count charge of vagabonds.

The Senior Magistrate, Hajiya Umma Kurawa, in her sentence said the convicts should either go to jail or pay a fine of N20,000 each.

Kurawa, also ordered the convicts to fill a bond to be of good behaviour, stressing that failure to do so would attract one year imprisonment for them.

She, therefore, ordered the convicts to bring one reliable surety, either biological father or guardian.

Earlier, the Police Prosecutor, Sgt. Ibrahim Tsanyawa, had told the court that the convicts committed the offence on Feb. 2.

Tsanyawa said a team of police men and other security agents headed by ACP Mamman Audu, all attached to the Kano State Command, arrested the culprits.

He said that the police raided some criminal hideouts and black spots at No man’s land and Sabon Gari Area Kano, where all the convicts were arrested.

The prosecutor said that the convicts were seen in public places, behaving in an indecent manner and flaunting their bodies to attract passers-by for the purpose of prostitution.

Although, the convicts pleaded guilty to the one count charge, the prosecutor said the offence contravened Section 408 of the penal code.

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