Court jails district head 5 years over illicit drug dealing

A Federal High Court sitting in Sokoto has sentenced an acting district head, Alhaji Umar Mohammed (aka Dan Bala) to five and a half years in jail on four counts charges of possession and dealing in 436.38kgs cannabis and 7kgs psychotropic drugs.

SOLACEBASE reports that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) brought the charge against Alhaji Umar Mohammed in October 2022.

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The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday.

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‘’The presiding Judge, Justice Ahmad Mahmud sentenced the convict to two years on each of counts 1 and 2 with an option of a million fine, and eight months on each of counts 3 and 4 without an option of fine,’’ the statement said.

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Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in Edo state on Wednesday 11th October stormed the Orue forest, Owan West LGA where they arrested Happy Akashili, 37, and Solomon Uwesue, 40 in a hut located inside a cannabis farm measuring 2.367308 hectares which was destroyed, with 92kgs already processed skunk recovered, while 49kgs of same substance were also seized at Ogbeturu camp.