A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos State, Nigeria, has convicted and sentenced to four years imprisonment, an Indian hemp seller, Idris Jimoh.
The 33-year-old convicted Jimoh was handed the jail term by Justice Rilwan Aikawa, after he pleaded guilty to a count charge of unlawful dealing in the banned weed, slammed against him by the National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
According to the NDLEA, the convict was arrested by its operatives on November 18, 2018, at Ijesha under-bridge, along Oshodi-Isolo expressway, Lagos, where he was hawking 1.7 kilograms of Cannabis Sativa, popularly called India hemp.
The NDLEA insisted before Justice Aikawa that the offence contravenes 11(c) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act, capital N30, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
In his judgment, Justice Aikawa declared that, “I have listened to the plea of mercy made by the convict’s counsel.
“I have also listened to the facts reviewed by the prosecutor, the defendant is hereby sentence to four years imprisonment.”
The charge against the convict reads: “That you Idris Iimoh, male, adult, 32 years old on or about the 8th day of November, 2018 at Ijesha under-Bridge, Lagos State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court without lawful authority engaged in the sale of 1.7kg of cannabis sativa, a narcotic drug similar to Cocaine, Heroin and LSD and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 11(c) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act, capital N30, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.”
