Six drug traffickers are to spend 156 years in jail.
The Federal High Court in Lagos and Ogun states handed down the jail terms for offences of drug dealing, transportation, and conspiracy to transport illicit substances filed against them by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
Twenty-seven-year-old drug dealer, Ahmed Abdulsabur, has the longest term of ten years.
The NDLEA operatives arrested and prosecuted him in 2022 in charge number FHC/AB/20C/2022 at the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, presided over by Justice Joyce Abdulmalik.
The spokesperson of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, revealed this in a statement obtained by our correspondent on Tuesday.
Justice Abdulmalik, in her judgment also jailed 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 ruled that the years of imprisonment in both cases will run concurrently.
Meanwhile, 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; and 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.
