Olaide Oyelude, KatsinaA Katsina State Senior Magistrates’ Court has sentenced to 10 months in jail, Salima Lawal, who was arrested for attempting to sell her 32-day-old twins for N350,000 in December last year. The court, however, gave the convict, a resident of Marabar kankara town in the Malumfashi Local Government Area of the state, an option of N10,000 fine. In his judgment on Wednesday evening, the presiding magistrate, Nuradeen El-Laden, explained that he gave Lawal a light sentence in view of the health of the twins and that of the mother herself. He noted that a woman attempting to sell her children might have been battling abject poverty. There were indications that a woman, who preferred to remain anonymous, had offered to pay the fine on behalf of the convict.

Source: Punch January 05, 2018 03:44 UTC