Two ladies, Chinaza Smart and Amarachi Ahukanna have been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for alleged conspiracy and child trafficking.
Twenty one year old Chinaza and Amarachi, 28 were convicted Wednesday at a Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt for conspiring to sell two-year-old Daniel Smart, second son of the 1st Defendant Chinaza Smart, to a woman by name Precious at Ihiala, Anambra State, for four-hundred-thousand-naira (N400,000.00).
The Presiding Magistrate, Chief Magistrate Felicitas Amanze, in her judgement convicted the two accused for committing a heinous crime against an innocent child whose whereabout is yet unknown as at press time.
The court held that the 2nd Defendant Amarachi Ahukanna who introduced the 1st Defendant Chinaza Smart to the child trafficking business lied to the court, that she did not convinced the her to sell her son, in order to raise money to travel to Dubai were she can earn four hundred thousand naira monthly.
The Chief Magistrate ruled that the 2nd Defendant is a chronic and unrepentant child trafficker and sentenced the two accused to five years on count one, seven years on count 2, which is to run consecutively.
In an interview with reporter, Head Legal Officer FIDA Rivers State, Esther Achor-Korienta, expressed satisfaction with the judgement delivered, stressing that the organization is all out to ensure child trafficking offence stops in the state.
