Man bags six-month imprisonment for peddling marijuana

A Federal High Court in Lagos State has sentenced a 22-year-old man, Tunde Morakinyo, to six-month imprisonment for unlawfully dealing in 600 grammes of marijuana.

The judge, Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke, sentenced the marijuana peddler following his guilty plea to the charge brought against him by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

He got a one-count charge of unlawful dealing in the banned substance.

NDLEA prosecutor, Mr Fingere Dinneys, told the court that the defendant was arrested by his agency’s operatives on February 5, 2020, along ljora-Badia Railway Line, Lagos, where he was selling the prohibited substance. (Guardian)

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