Six Drug Traffickers Sentenced To 156 Years In Lagos, Ogun

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos and Ogun state has sentenced six drug traffickers to a total of 156 years.

VerseNews Nigeria reports that court case was filed against them by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NFLEA) and disclosed in a statement by its spokesman, Femi Babafemi on Tuesday March 2023.

They were imprisonment for offences bordering on drug dealing, transportation, and conspiracy to transport illicit substance.

According to the statement, “27-year-old Ahmed Abdulsabur was convicted and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by Justice Joyce Obehi Abdulmalik on a six counts charges with number FHC/AB/20C/2022 brought against him at the Federal High Court, Abeaokuta. He was then sentenced for a total of 60 years imprisonment.”

“Justice Abdulmalik also sentenced another dealer, Olumide Elegbede, 32, to 20 years jail term; 10 years for each of the two counts charge brought against him in charge number: FHC/AB/128C/2I. the judge rued that the years of imprisonment in bith cases will run concurrently.”

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“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, March 16 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 the Lagos/ Ibadan Expressway. The court also granted the final forfeiture of Three Million Naira (N3, 000, 000) offered as a bribe by the convicts to NDLEA officers.”

“The drugs concealed with ‘take away’ food packs in 19 big cartons were seized in the white Ford bus heading to Port Harcourt, Rivers state along Lagos-Ibadan expressway at 2:35 am on Sunday 22nd Jan. 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.”