Posted by Amarachi on Fri 09th May, 2025 - tori.ng
The defendants are facing a two-count charge of human trafficking and contemporary slavery.
The Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, remanded a 17-year-old girl, Damilola Basiru, and Loveth Christian, 25, on Thursday, in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly trafficking two persons.
The defendants are facing a two-count charge of human trafficking and contemporary slavery.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr Patrick Adekomaiya, who did not take the pleas of the defendants, ordered that the case file should be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutors (DPP) for advice.
Adekomaiya adjourned the case until June 30 for the DPP’s advice.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp. Ayodele Adeosun, told the court that the defendants committed the offences on April 26 at 1.30 p.m., in Ajara Agamathen, Badagry.
Adeosun said that the defendants unlawfully trafficked two persons, whose ages are 18 and 15, to Ghana.
He said that the defendants sold the victims to be treated as slaves.
Adeosun said that the offences contravened Sections 411 and 276 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.