Via Ike Uchechukwu, CALABAR
A Federal Top Court docket sitting in Calabar has sentenced 3 males to jail for abducting and trafficking a two-year-old boy from Go River State, in a bid to take him to Benue State.
The convicts, Felix Iorlumun, 18; Silas Shie, 19; and Samuel Moses, 27, had been discovered accountable on Wednesday of conspiracy and transporting the kid by the use of abduction for the aim of exploitation.
The offences contravene Sections 13 and 27 of the Trafficking in Individuals (Prohibition), Enforcement and Management Act (TIPPEA) 2015.
Turning in judgment on October 7, 2026, Justice Rosemary Oghoghorie convicted the trio on all counts in Fee No. FHC/CA/160C/2026, titled Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Felix Iorlumun and two others.
The case used to be prosecuted through the Go River State Command of the Nationwide Company for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Individuals (NAPTIP).
The sufferer, Knowledge Emmanuel Achua, used to be kidnapped from Bunyia Group in Boki Native Council and brought to Mbube Group in Ogoja Native House of the state.
The convicts had been intercepted in Mbube through group vigilantes, who alerted NAPTIP.
The company then took over the investigation and prosecution.
The 3 males pleaded accountable to the fees after they had been arraigned in October.
Iorlumun and Shie had been every sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment and fined N250,000 on every of counts one and two, with the sentences to run at the same time as.
Moses used to be likewise sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment and fined N250,000 on every of counts one and two, to run at the same time as.
On rely 3, he used to be sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment and fined N1 million, which may even run at the same time as.