Lagos: A 54 years old woman identified as Modinat Owolabi has been sentenced to a ten years imprisonment over alleged drug trafficking in lagos.
The court magistrate, Justice Mohammed Aikawa of The Federal High Court in Lagos state has sentence the lady after pleaded guilty of her offence on Tuesday 31, Oct 2017
According to a source, the victim was apprehended by the National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on May 19, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport and taken to the court for judgment.
After reviewing the facts of the case, the prosecutor, Mr Abu Ibrahim, tendered the convict’s harmonised ECOWAS passport, an E-ticket and a boarding pass obtained from her as evidence.
He also tendered three written statements of the convict, two request of scientific aid forms, a drug analysis report, and a sealed brown envelope which were all admitted as exhibits.
After tendering the evidences, the prosecutor urged the court to convict and sentence her accordingly to the law.
Consequently, Justice Aikawa, pronounced the convict guilty as charged.
In her plea for mercy, defence counsel Mrs M. Ogunleye, urged the court to temper justice with mercy in its sentence, as the convict was a first time offender.
In his judgment, however, Aikawa held that the court was bound by the provisions of the law and must be guided by it.
He, accordingly, sentenced the convict to 10 years imprisonment beginning from the date of her arrest.
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The charge marked FHC/L/301c/17, showed that the convict was arrested on May 19, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja.
According to one of The prosecution he said that she was apprehended during the outward clearance of a Qatar Airline flight to Saudi Arabia, with 330 grammes of Cocaine, a restricted narcotics prohibited by law.
He said that the offence contravenes the provisions of Section 11(b) of the NDLEA Act, Cap. N30, Laws of the Federation, 2004.
Source: NAN
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