Crime
Drugpins, 16 others bags 302 years jail term for drug trafficking
Three kingpins and 16 others have been convicted and sentenced to a total of 302 years in prison for trafficking and dealing in illicit drugs, such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, cannabis and opioids.
Femi Babafemi, Director, Media and Advocacy of NDLEA in a statement on Friday, August 16, 2024, revealed that the convictions followed their arrest and prosecution by the anti-narcotics agency.
The statement reads in part, “The 19 convicts top the list of 414 drug traffickers and dealers convicted by the Federal High Court in Benue, Bauchi, Edo, Lagos, Ogun, Gombe and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Abuja between July 1st and 31st 2024 based on charges filed against them by the anti-narcotics agency.
One of the three kingpins, 50-year-old Bolanle Lookman Dauda was arrested in an intelligence-led raid by operatives of a special operation unit in NDLEA at Ibiye, along Lagos-Badagry expressway while attempting to cross the land border to deliver the consignment in Ghana on Saturday, 25th May 2024.
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