Nigerian court jails Vietnamese national for trafficking in pangolin scales

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A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced a Vietnamese, Nguyen Huy, to three months in a custodial centre for trafficking in Pangolin scale.

This judgement was delivered on Friday after Huy pleaded guilty to two charges brought against him by the Nigeria Customs Service.

Justice Daniel Osiagor sentenced Huy to three months imprisonment on each of two counts preferred against him by the Customs.Justice Osiagor gave the judgment following Huy’s ‘guilty’ plea to the charge and an allocutus by his counsel, Okey Mgbobukwa, praying the court to temper justice with mercy.

 

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