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 for dealing in drugs.
Dan Bala was arraigned before the court by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA in October 2022, on four-count charge bordering on possession and dealing in 436.38kgs Cannabis and 7kgs Psychotropic drugs.
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This is contained in a statement signed by the Agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Mr. Femi Babafemi.
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According to the statement, the presiding Judge, Justice Ahmad Mahmud sentenced the convict to two years on each of counts 1 and 2 with an option of one million fine and eight months on each of counts 3 and 4 without an option of fine.
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.
