After bagging 25 25-year jail term, a Lagos Federal High Court has convicted and sentenced a convict, Mrs. Odeyemi Omolara, to another 15 years imprisonment for drug trafficking.
The convict, Omolara, was sentenced to another 15 years by Justice Deinde Dipeolu, on Tuesday.
The judge said the new 15-year jail term shall run concurrently with the ongoing 25-year sentence handed down on the convict in June 2017 by Justice Hadiza Rabiu-Shagari (now a judge of the Appeal Court)
The convict was formerly sentenced to 25 years in jail in June 2017, after confessing to having committed the offence of illegal export of 1.595 Kilograms of cocaine to Saudi Arabia.
She was given the fresh jail, after she pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and unlawful possession of the banned substance, after the prosecutor, Mr. Abu Ibrahim had reviewed the facts of the four counts charge, made against her by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
Meanwhile, following the sentencing of Odeyemi Omolara, who is the first defendant in the four-count charge, the trial of Mrs. Funmilola Arike Ogbuaya (a.k.a Ariket), who had pleaded not guilty to the charges commenced before the court.
At the commencement of the trial, yesterday, NDLEA called five prosecution witnesses to testify in support of its case against Ariket.
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