A Federal High Court in Lagos Friday sentenced to four years imprisonment an awaiting trial inmate, Osaro Egberamwen, who organised an Indian hemp smuggling operation from his cell in the Ikoyi Correctional Centre .
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency arraigned the duo before Justice Ayokunle Faji sometime in 2020 on a two-count charge of conspiracy and unlawful dealing in 240 grammes of cannabis sativa, popularly called Indian hemp During the trial, the prosecutor told the court that Egberamwen, on September 24, 2020, while in custody of Nigerian Correctional Services awaiting trial for another criminal offence, contacted and hired Okpa on Facebook, to smuggle the said weed into the NCoS facility.
Grace was convicted and sentenced to three months imprisonment with an option of N50,000 fine, following her arraignment and guilty plea before a Federal High Court in Lagos on August 28, 2020.It was alleged that in 2017, he strangled to death an Uber cab driver named Alex, fled with the car – a KIA Rio – to Delta State, where it was sold off.