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Man sentenced to six years imprisonment for cultivating Indian hemp
Man sentenced to six years imprisonment for cultivating Indian hemp
The Federal High Court in Ibadan on Tuesday sentenced a farm labourer, Johnson Abu, to six years imprisonment for cultivating and dealing in cannabis sativa, otherwise known as Indian hemp.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Abu was arraigned by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on a two-count charge of cultivating and dealing with the substance.
The 36-year-old convict, who pleaded guilty to the charge, was sentenced by Justice A. Okeke after the presentation of facts of the case by the prosecuting counsel, Mrs Anne Balogun.
Okeke sentenced him to three years in prison for cultivating 0.4686 hectares of Indian hemp at Ibu-Ade Village in Apata in Ibadan.
He also bagged three years imprisonment for dealing in 64kg of the substance.
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The judge said the sentences would however run concurrently, starting from the day he was arrested.
“I find him guilty of count one for cultivating 0.4686 hectares of cannabis sativa farm, which contravenes Section 19 of NDLEA Act Cap N30 Law of the Federation 2000.
“I also find him guilty of count two for dealing in 64kg of cannabis sativa, which contravenes Section 19 of NDLEA Act N30 Law of the Federation 2000.
“I sentence you to three years imprisonment for count one and also three years imprisonment for count two. The sentences are to run concurrently from the date of the arrest,” she said.
NAN reports that the judge further ordered NDLEA to destroy the exhibits if no appeal was filed within 30 days.
Earlier, the prosecuting counsel had told the court that the convict was arrested on Sept. 12 at Ibu-Ade Village for allegedly cultivating and dealing in cannabis sativa.
She called a witness, an NDLEA operative, Olaniyan Olutayo, who tendered dry weed and 64kg fresh weed as exhibits in prosecuting the matter.
The defendant’s counsel, Mr Adetola Babalola, had pleaded for leniency in sentencing his client.
(NAN)
The Anambra State Police Command has foiled a cult initiation ceremony in Nawfia, Njikoka Local Government Area of the state.
Spokesperson for the Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Awka.
According to Ikenga, the operation was carried out by police operatives around 9:30am on June 15, leading to the arrest of six suspects at the scene.
Recovered during the raid were one Jojef pump action gun, two cartridges, and a golden-coloured Lexus SUV with registration number ATN 202 AE. Other items found include two cutlasses, two scissors, a cap bearing the inscription of the Supreme Vikings Confraternity, charms, and substances suspected to be hard drugs.
“They are currently undergoing police interrogation to get more insight into their modus operandi, after which the case will be charged to court on the conclusion of the investigations,” Ikenga stated.
The police spokesperson reassured residents of the command’s unwavering commitment to fighting cultism and other related crimes across the state.
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Wednesday, remanded two persons, Olaitan Fasasi and Kehinde Tobiloba in a correctional facility over alleged attempted murder.
Fasasi, 40, and Tobiloba, 26, whose addresses were not provided, are being charged with conspiracy, attempted murder and membership of a secret society.
The Magistrate, Mr L.A Owolabi, did not take the plea of the defendants for want of jurisdiction.
Owolabi directed the police to forward the case file to the Director of Public Prosecution for legal advice.
He thereafter adjourned the case until May 31 for mention.
The Prosecutor, Josephine Ikhayere, told the court that the defendants committed the offences at about 5.02p.m on Feb. 15, at Mushin, Lagos.
She said that Fasasi, Tobiloba and others now at large, attempted to commit murder by shooting at a resident, Alfred Ademola.
“They armed themselves with a locally made gun. They belong to Eiye Confraternity, a group proscribed by law,”, she said.
Ikhayere said that the offences contravened Sections 230(1) and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2012.
He said that the actions of the defendants also contravened Section 2(3)(a)(b)(c)(d) of the unlawful societies and Cultism Law of Lagos State Law.
An Area Court in Jos, on Tuesday, sentenced one Jeptha John, to three months imprisonment for stealing a Redmi mobile phone valued at N165, 000.
The judge, Shawomi Bokkos, sentenced the John after he pleaded guilty to the offence.
The judge, however, gave the convict an option to pay N20, 000 fine and N50, 000 restitution to the complainant.
Bokkos said that if the convict defaulted in paying the restitution, three months should be added to his sentence to make it six months imprisonment.
Earlier, the police prosecutor, Insp Monday Dabit, told the court that the case was reported at the B Division Police Station, Jos, on Dec. 1, 2024, by Ms Nerat Danjuma.
He said that the complainant alleged that the defendant trespassed into her house and stole her mobile phone valued at N165, 000.
The prosecutor further told the court that the offence contravened the Plateau State Penal Code, Law of Northern Nigeria.
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