(NIGERIA) Justice John Tsoho of a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos yesterday sentenced a 35 year-old Pakistani, Bukhari Syed Waseem Ahmed, to ten years imprisonment over his involvement in the importation of 13 kilograms of Heroines into Nigeria.
The judge declared that the convict had in his confessional statement maintained that he was arrested on his third trip to Nigeria on the elicit business.
Justice Tsoho further declared that if the convict had not been arrested, he would still have continued in the
business which is at the detriment of Nigerians and the sovereignty of the country.
The judge thereafter ordered that the seized drug be destroyed if there no any appeal against the judgment within 90 days.
The convict was apprehended by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on February 10, 2012, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, on his arrival from Pakistan.
Waseem who was said to have conspired with one Benjamin Okereke and Chukwudi Okereke, both now at large, to import the banned substance into the country, was arraigned before Justice Tsoho on an amended two count charge of conspiracy and unlawful importation of narcotics.
According to the prosecutor, Augustine Nwagu who is an Assistant Director of Prosecution of the NDLEA, the offence contravenes Section 14 (b) and11 (a) of the NDLEA Act, Cap. 30 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
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