Lawal, who hails Marabar
Kankara town in the Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State, had been
arraigned on Monday by the police.
The thirty-year-old woman,
Salima Lawal, who was arraigned for allegedly attempting to sell her
one-month-old twins for N350,000, has been remanded in the prison custody.
The remand order was made
on Tuesday by a Katsina State Senior Magistrates’ Court, Punch learnt.
The charges against her
border on buying and selling of minors, an offence the police said was contrary
to Section 278 of the Penal Code.
At the Tuesday’s
proceedings, the presiding senior magistrate, Nuradeen El-Laden, however, drew
the prosecutor’s attention to some flaws in the First Information Report filed
by the police in the case.
The prosecutor, ASP Ashimu
Musa, told the magistrate that investigation had yet to be concluded in the
case.
He said the outcome of
investigation would determine the final charges that the police would file
against the suspect.
Musa pleaded for an
adjournment to enable the police to complete their investigation.
He also pleaded with the
court to take judicial notice of Lawal’s condition as a nursing mother.
The magistrate, El-Laden,
adjourned the case till December 20, 2017, and directed that Lawal should be
remanded in the prison custody.
The police had arrested
Lawal for allegedly attempting to sell her one-month-old female twins to “a
good Samaritan” at Ruwan Godiya village in the Faskari Local Government Area of
the state on December 2.
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