ABDULLAHI V. A.G. FEDERATION

BOLOUKUROMO MOSES UGO, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is from the 14th October, 2016 judgment of the Federal High Court, Kano Division, delivered by J.K. Omotosho J. in Charge No: FHC/K/CS/173/2016 convicting appellant of procuring an eight-year-old girl for sexual exploitation, an offence punishable with imprisonment of a term of not less than seven (7) years imprisonment and fine of not less than ₦1,000,000.00 under Section 16 (1) of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015. The charge laid against appellant by the prosecution in that Court alleged that appellant did procure for himself the said under-aged girl of 8 years, a certain Miss H (I do not wish to disclose her full identity) of Kawu Bubugaje Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano State and had carnal knowledge of her. 

The case of the prosecution was presented by Miss H herself as the prosecution’s first witness (P.w.1) and supported by her mother as P.W.2; her…