Two drug traffickers to spend seven years in prison

NDLEA boss, Ahmadu Giade
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Two drug traffickers arrested by officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja will spend the next seven years in prison custody.

The convicts, Obiageli Mbechi and Okechukwu Obiora, according to Justice Chukwu Evoh of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, will spend seven years each in prison over unlawful importation of narcotics.

Chukwu said this after both suspects pleaded guilty to unlawful importation of narcotics. He held that the convicts showed sufficient remorse and that the court expects them to turn a new leaf and contribute to the development of the country after completing their jail terms.

Mbechi, with Nigerian international passport number A00288396, claimed that she was three months pregnant when stopped for routine search on her way from Sao-Paulo, Brazil.

The 38-year-old who hails from Oduma in Enugu State had warned that scanning machine could harm her unborn baby but when placed under observation, she excreted 51 pellets of cocaine weighing 900g.

Obiora, 36, who arrived from Brazil, was arrested for ingesting 91 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.6kg.

Chairman of the NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade, said that he expected others to learn from their experience.

 “Drug trafficking kills dreams. It is expected that others outside, contemplating drug trafficking will learn from this sentence and shun the criminal act,” Giade stated.