Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced four men to various jail terms totalling 28 years with hard labour over drug-related offenses.
The convicts were arrested in connection with the historic seizure of 2,139 kilograms of illicit drugs at an Ikorodu residential estate in 2022.
In a statement on its X handle on Thursday, The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, identified the convicts as Soji Jubril Oke, 71; Wasiu Akinade, 55; Emmanuel Arinze Chukwu, 67; and Kelvin Christopher Smith, 44, a Jamaican.
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The NDLEA also said after over two years of prosecution, the trial judge sentenced Smith, the Jamaican, to 4 years imprisonment with hard labour, Chukwu to 16 years, Oke to 5 years with hard labour, and Akinade to 3 years with hard labour.
The convicts also forfeited various sums of cash and properties to the government.
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