NAN-H-59
Sentence
By Sandra Umeh
Lagos, Jan. 30, 2018 (NAN) A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday sentenced a 28-year-old man, Oluwaseun Olamilekan, to 18 months imprisonment, for allegedly trafficking in cannabis sativa (Indian-hem).
In his judgment at the resumed hearing, Justice Ayokunle Faji, said the imprisonment would begin from the date of his arrest.
He ordered that the drug exhibits to be returned to the NDLEA for destruction.
The convict had begged for leniency and promised to turn a new leaf.
Olamilekan was arraigned by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on a one count charge of trafficking in narcotic substance.
He had earlier been arraigned before the court on Sept. 8, 2017 when he pleaded guilty.
The Prosecutor, Mr Jeremiah Aernan, had told the court that the convict was arrested on Aug. 10, 2017 at Kasimu Street in Agege, Lagos, with 3.1kilogrames of narcotics.
Aernan tendered some documents in evidence as well as some remnant of the narcotic substance.
He said the offence contravened Section 11 (c) of the NDLEA Act, Cap 30, Laws of the Federation, 2004. (NAN)
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