- A 56 year-old woman, Owolabi Oluwayemisi Modinat, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail
- Owolabi was arrested by the NDLEA while attempting to traffic cocaine to Saudi Arabia
The Lagos Federal High Court on Tuesday, October 31, sentenced one Owolabi Oluwayemisi Modinat, to ten years in jail for attempting to traffic drugs. 56 year-old Owolabi was arrested at the Murtala Mohammad Airport, Lagos, by the National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) with about 330 grammes of cocaine during outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight to Saudi Arabia. The convict had earlier pleaded guilty when she was first arraigned before the court, and maintained her plea on Wednesday.
In urging the court to convict the mother of four, the NDLEA prosecutor, while reviewing the fact of the case, tendered the convict’s harmonized ECOWAS passport with number: 1808098653, an E-ticket and boarding pass as evidence.
Other evidence tendered by the prosecutor includes: three written statements of the convict, two request of scientific aid form, a drug analysing report, two evidence pouches, two transparent pouches containing bulk of the drug, two scientific report of the drug, and a sealed brown envelope with reference number:DEA/17/MM/013, which were admitted as exhibits.
After tendering the evidence, coupled with the plea of the mother of four, the prosecutor urged the court to convict and sentence her accordingly.
Imo state police command has paraded a syndicate that specialises in stealing and selling children and operating in state. Reports have it that members of the group included Obinna Eze, Oluchi Chibuike,Vitalis Lumanze, Nkiru Nwanedu, Chinyere Nwudu and one Jacinta, who reportedly abducted and sold a five-year-old boy, Francis Nwachukwu, and his two-year-old sibling, Chinaza Nwachukwu, for N1.1 million
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