Court sentences man, 32, to 4 years imprisonment for drug trafficking

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(Nigeria) The Federal High Court in Enugu on Monday sentenced a 32-year-old man, Chizoba Nwabuwa, to four years imprisonment for trafficking in cocaine.
Justice Adamu Bello sentenced Nwabuwa after finding him guilty of trafficking in 2.5 kilogrammes of cocaine and ordered the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to burn the substance.
The prosecution counsel, Mr Jacob Momodu, tendered four examinations to prove that the substance was cocaine.
He said the accused used 200 dollars to transport the substance to Enugu, adding that the transport receipt was contained in his traveling document.
The counsel to the accused, Mr Emmanuel Ujuatumba, told the court that his client had decided to plead guilty to the offence.
“My Lord, we know the law provided for life imprisonment for drug trafficking. I plead that you temper justice with mercy. The accused was misled and lured into the act and he has promised never to engage in such an act again.
“Besides, this is his first time of associating himself with such a crime,” he pleaded.
Speaking shortly before the sentence, Nwabuwa, who is a student of an undisclosed tertiary institution in the country, promised not to engage in the act again.
He said he was lured into it by someone.  ``It is just that the NDLEA officers did not give me the opportunity to disclose the owner. If not, they would have gotten him.’’
Nwabuwa was arrested on September 15, 2013 at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu by officers of the NDLEA.

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