According to an Entrepreneurng report, the Federal High Court in Lagos and Ogun has sentenced six drug dealers to a combined total of 156 years in prison for offenses involving drug dealing, transportation, and conspiracy to transport illegal substances. The charges were brought against them by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
Ahmed Abdulsabur, a 27-year-old drug dealer, was the worst hit. He was apprehended by NDLEA agents in 2022, and he was charged in charge number FHC/AB/20C/2022 at the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, presided over by Justice Joyce Abdulmalik.
In a statement that our journalist on Tuesday was able to receive, Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA’s director of media and advocacy, disclosed.
In her ruling on the six counts of charges presented against Abdulsabur, Justice Abdulmalik found him guilty and sentenced him to 10 years in prison on each count, for a total of 60 years in prison.
In a related decision, Justice Abdulmalik also gave Olumide Elegbede, a 32-year-old dealer, a 20-year prison sentence, with 10 years for each of the two charges that were made against him under charge number FHC/AB/128C/2I. According to the judge’s decision, the sentences in both cases would be served concurrently.
The four defendants, Okechukwu Umeh, Lanre Adebayo, Adigun Adeshina, and Emmanuel Omijeh, were charged with a total of three counts at the Federal High Court in Lagos.
On March 16, the trial judge, Justice Akintayo Aluko, found the defendants guilty and sentenced them to five years in prison on counts one and seven years on counts two and three.
This increases the overall number of years for each of them to 19 years in prison and the total number of years for the four of them to 76.
Okechukwu Umeh, 41, Lanre Ismaila, 47, Adeshina Fatai, 50, and Emmanuel Omijeh, 42, were convicted of the seizure, and N3 million held as bribe money was kept as evidence in their cases. Babafemi made a note.
The four offenders had the option of paying N20 million instead of their jail terms, the speaker continued, even though the judge had determined that the sentences should run concurrently.
Despite the judge’s decision that the sentences should run consecutively, the four prisoners had the option of paying N20 million instead of their jail terms, the speaker continued.
“This is in addition to granting the application by the NDLEA for the final forfeiture of a white color Ford bus with registration number PHC 315 ZT, used to transport 532. 8 kilograms of the Loud variant of cannabis on the day of their arrest, Sunday, January 22, 2023, along the Lagos/Ibadan expressway,” Babafemi continued.
In conclusion, the court also approved the final confiscation of the N3 million the prisoners had proposed as a bribe to NDLEA officials.
On Sunday, January 22, at 2:35 a.m., the drugs were discovered in 19 large cartons of ‘take away’ food packs packed inside a white Ford bus traveling to Port Harcourt, Rivers state.
Source: PunchÂ
