The mastermind of the Kano missing 9 children, Paul Owne, has been sentenced to 104 years imprisonment, for stealing and selling the children in far away Anambra State.
Onwe who was also fined the sum of N100,000 for conspiring with six accomplices to kidnap the children, who are under 10 years, from Kano and selling them in Onitsha, Anambra State, was arrested in 2019 for abducting, selling and forcefully converting the children to Christianity.
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Passing the judgement, the Kano High Court judge, Justice Zuwaira Yusuf, sentenced Paul to 104 years in addition to the fine of the sum of N100,000 for conspiring among his 6 other accomplices after he pleaded guilty to all the 38 count charges slammed against him by the Kano State Government.
Delivering the judgment, Justice Yusuf categorised the offences into three and at the end slammed the sentence on him.
In the first category, the court upheld that the convict was found guilty of counts 2, 8, 9, 27 and 34. She convicted him for 7 years each without the option of a fine in addition to the payment of the sum of N100,000.
Similarly, the court found Paul guilty of counts 3, 5, 10, 11, 22, 28 and 38 and was sentenced to 7 years in prison.
While in the last category, Justice Yusuf said the action of Paul was in contravention of counts 4, 12, 13, 29 and 38. She, therefore, convicted him to 4 years in prison for each count without the option of a fine.
She ordered that all the counts run conservatively.
The convicted person was arraigned before the court alongside his 5 other defendants who pleaded not guilty to all the charges read to them. They are Ogbono, Emanuel Igwe, Loise Duru, Monica Oracha, Chinelo Ifedigwe.
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