Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted and sentenced, a murder suspect, Osaro Egberamwen to four years Imprisonment for unlawful dealing in 240 grams of cannabis sativa, popularly called Indian hemp.
The two convicts were charged before the court sometimes in 2020 by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on a two-count charge of conspiracy and unlawful dealing in the banned weeds. During the course of the trial, the Aigoga informed Justice Faji that the first convict, Osaro, on September 24, 2020, while in custody of Nigerian Correctional Services , awaiting trial for another criminal offence, contacted and hired the second convict through Facebook, to smuggle the said weed in the facility.