Court Jails 27 Year- Old Drug Trafficker To 60, Others 96 Years In Lagos, Ogun
Six drug peddlers have been convicted and sentenced to jail by the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos and Ogun State, respectively. The drug traffickers were convicted for offences bordering on drug dealing, transportation, and conspiracy to transport illicit substances filed against them by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA
Six drug peddlers have been convicted and sentenced to jail by the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos and Ogun State, respectively. The drug traffickers were convicted for offences bordering on drug dealing, transportation, and conspiracy to transport illicit substances filed against them by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, on Tuesday, said a 27-year-old drug dealer, Ahmed Abdulsabur, who was arrested in 2022 by NDLEA operatives collected 60 years imprisonment alone.
Abdulsabur was prosecuted with charge number FHC/AB/20C/2022 at the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, and presided over by Hon. Justice Joyce Obehi Abdulmalik.
He explained that while delivering her judgment on the six counts charge brought against Ahmed, Justice Abdulmalik convicted and sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment on each count, bringing the total number of his jail term to 60 years.
Babafemi said that trailing behind Abdulsabur, was Olumide Elegbede, 32, who bagged 20 years jail term adding that he has 10 years for each of the two counts charge brought against him in charge number: FHC/AB/128C/2I.
Justice Abdulmalik also sentenced the convict drug dealer, ruling that the years of imprisonment in both cases would run concurrently.
"At the Federal High Court in Lagos, where the quartet of: Okechukwu Umeh; Lanre Adebayo; Adigun Adeshina and Emmanuel Omijeh were arraigned on three counts in charge number FHC/L/87c/2023, the trial judge, Justice Akintayo Aluko on Thursday 16th March convicted and sentenced each of them to five years on count one; seven years each on counts two and three.
"This brings the total number of years for each of them to 19 years jail term and the four of them to 76 years imprisonment.
"While the judge ruled that the sentences should run concurrently, he also gave the four convicts the option of paying N20 million in lieu of the jail terms.
"This is in addition to granting the application by the NDLEA for the final forfeiture of a white colour Ford bus with registration number: PHC 315 ZT, used in conveying 532. 8 kilograms of Loud variant of cannabis on the day of their arrest, Sunday 22nd January 2023 along Lagos/ Ibadan expressway.
"The court also granted the final forfeiture of Three Million Naira (N3, 000, 000) offered as bribe by the convicts to NDLEA officers." Babafemi said.
According to him, the drugs were concealed with take away food packs in 19 big cartons and they were seized in the white Ford bus heading to Port Harcourt, Rivers state along Lagos-Ibadan expressway at 2:35am on Sunday 22nd January.
"The convicts: Okechukwu Umen, 41; Lanre Adebayo Ismaila, 47; Adeshina Adigun Fatai, 50; and Emmanuel Omijeh, 42, were arrested in connection with the seizure and three million naira (N3,000,000) offered as bribe kept as part of the exhibits for their prosecution." He said.
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