A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday sentenced a 35-year-old woman, Sikirat Jimoh, to three years in prison for drug trafficking. Jimoh, a Nigerian resident in Ghana, was arraigned on Feb. 12 on a one-count charge of dealing in Cannabis Sativa (Indian Hemp).
She had pleaded guilty to the charge and Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke adjourned the suit for sentencing.
Delivering judgment, Aneke sentenced the convict to three years imprisonment, without an option of fine.
“Following the plea of the accused, she is hereby found guilty as charged.
“The convict is accordingly sentenced to three years imprisonment, beginning from the date of her arrest,” he said.
The judge also ordered the drug exhibits to be destroyed.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the prosecutor, Mr Jeremiah Aernan, had told the court that the convict who resides at New Town, in Accra, Ghana, was arrested on Oct. 7, 2013.
Aernan said that the convict was apprehended by Custom officers at the Sarki checkpoint in Oyo, at about 10:00 p.m., during a routine stop and search exercise of cars.
He said that the convict, who was on board a white Peugeot Station Wagon Car, was arrested when about 28 parcels of compressed dried weeds were recovered from her possession.
He said the substance weighed about 27 kilogrammes.
According to the prosecutor, the driver of the vehicle immediately escaped into the bush, while the woman was arrested.
Aernan told the court that the Nigerian Custom Service, Ikeja, eventually transferred the case to the office of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, on Oct. 9, 2013, for prosecution.
The offence of drug trafficking is said to contravene the provisions of section 11 (c) of the NDLEA Act, Cap N30 Laws of the Federation, 2004.
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“Following the plea of the accused, she is hereby found guilty as charged.
“The convict is accordingly sentenced to three years imprisonment, beginning from the date of her arrest,” he said.
The judge also ordered the drug exhibits to be destroyed.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the prosecutor, Mr Jeremiah Aernan, had told the court that the convict who resides at New Town, in Accra, Ghana, was arrested on Oct. 7, 2013.
Aernan said that the convict was apprehended by Custom officers at the Sarki checkpoint in Oyo, at about 10:00 p.m., during a routine stop and search exercise of cars.
He said that the convict, who was on board a white Peugeot Station Wagon Car, was arrested when about 28 parcels of compressed dried weeds were recovered from her possession.
He said the substance weighed about 27 kilogrammes.
According to the prosecutor, the driver of the vehicle immediately escaped into the bush, while the woman was arrested.
Aernan told the court that the Nigerian Custom Service, Ikeja, eventually transferred the case to the office of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, on Oct. 9, 2013, for prosecution.
The offence of drug trafficking is said to contravene the provisions of section 11 (c) of the NDLEA Act, Cap N30 Laws of the Federation, 2004.
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