OPPOSITION LEADER IN NIGER HAS SENTENCED TO PRISON.

His Lawyers says its political.

The court in Niger has sentenced Hama Amadou the opposition leader who lives in exile in France one year imprisonment after been found guilty of dealing with illicit businesses of child trafficking.

He is guilty of buying infant from neighboring country Nigeria.

When the sentence was handed down, Amadou and his Lawyers were not present in court and each time was denying these allegations and explains that it is political.

He was arrested last year and due to health reasons he was released the same year, a state which makes him run to and hide in France.

Hama Amadou was the first runner up in the presidential election held in the country last year.