A Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted and sentenced nine Ghanaians arrested for attempting to smuggle 10,843.95kg of cannabis into Nigeria through the sea to 72 years imprisonment.
The spokesman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Femi Babafemi, said in a statement on Sunday that the Ghanaians, sentenced on Friday, were arrested by men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and transferred to the NDLEA for further investigation and prosecution.
“Delivering his ruling in the matter on Friday, Justice Akintayo Aluko of the Federal High Court, Lagos convicted the Ghanaians of conspiracy and dealing in cannabis and thereafter sentenced each of them to eight years in prison,” he said.
It was also revealed that an expectant woman, a nursing mother and a 200-level university student were among 28 persons arrested with 9,437.6kg of cannabis and 138,053 tablets of pharmaceutical opioids, among others, by operatives of the NDLEA during interdiction operations across 12 states
The states are Yobe, Ondo, Edo, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Jigawa, Kogi, Adamawa, Kaduna, Kwara, Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
