Court sentences grandpa to 5 years imprisonment for trafficking in 4.9kg of Canada Loud

Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of a Federal High Court, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced a 59 year-old man, Nwokedi Emeka Jonas, to five years imprisonment for conspiracy and unlawful dealing in 4.9 kilograms of Canada Loud, a drug similar to Cocaine and heroin.
Justice Lewis-Allagoa passed the verdict of the convicted man, after he pleaded guilty to two counts charge made against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Friday.
The judge however ordered the convicted man to pay the sum of N5 million in lieu of the jail-term.
The convicted man, according to the prosecutor, Barrister Ibrahim Abu, was arrested with the controlled substance on January 14, 2025, Ojodu-Berger, Lagos.
He was accused of conspiring with one Anyanwu, who based in Canada, to commit the illicit acts.
The prosecutor had told the court that the convict’s illegal acts are contrary to sections 14(b) and 19 of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act Cap. N30, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and punishable under the same Act.
Following his guilty plea to the charges, and upon the reviewing the facts of the charge and tendering of the exhibits by the prosecutor, his lawyer, Dennis Warri, in his allucutor. pleaded with the court to tamper justice with mercy in sentencing his client.
The lawyer also listed several mitigating factors, which he urged the court to considered in giving his client a non-custodian sentence or a fine option in lieu of the jail-term.
Justice Lewis-Allagoa after confirming from the prosecutor that the convict is a first time offender who did not have any record of previous conviction, sentenced him to five years imprisonment.
The judge however ordered the convict to pay the sum of N5 million fine as an option to the jail-term.
Charges against the convict reads: “That you Nwokedi Emeka Jonas male, adult on or about the 14th January 2025 conspired with one ‘Anyanwu’ based in Canada (now at large) to import 4.9 kilograms of Cannabis Sativa a.k.a. Canada Loud, a Narcotic Drug similar to Cocaine, LSD, Heroin and you thereby committed an act which is an offence contrary to and punishable under section 14 (b) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act Cap. N30, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
“That you Nwokedi Emeka Jonas male, adult on or about the 14th January 2025 at Ojodu-Berger of Lagos State without lawful authority knowingly possessed 4.9 kilograms of Cannabis Sativa a.k.a. Canada Loud, a Narcotic Drug similar to Cocaine, LSD, Heroin and you thereby committed an act which is an offence contrary to and punishable under section 19 of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act Cap. N30, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.”
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