Court Convicts Cripple, Two Others Over Drug Trafficking

              

Odogwuemekaodogwu.com reports that the Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, presided over by Justice Isah Gafai has sentenced a cripple, Emmanuel Ozua to four years imprisonment for dealing on Cannabis Sativa (Indian hemp).

Delivering a judgment, Justice Gafai said the accused, inspite of his disability, involved himself in drug trafficking, hence he deserved to be punished according to the law.

The 23-year old crippled Ozua who hails from Awkuzu in Oyi Local Government Area of the state, according to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA prosecution, was arrested with 100 Grammes of the substance at Nkwo market, Awkuzu on September 21, 2013.

The prosecution also alleged that the convict had initially been arrested on February 19, 2013 in possession of 300 Grammes of the substance but was counseled and pardoned and yet he continued with the trafficking until he was arrested for the second time in September, last year.

The court also sentenced two other traffickers, Udoka Nwodo and David Admenchezo to three years imprisonment each without option of fine.

NDLEA prosecution had told the court that the 21 year-old Nwodo who hails from Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state, was arrested on March 31, 2014 with 2.3 Grammes of Cannabis, while the 48 year-old Admenchezo who hails from Enuko village, Isiagu in Awka South Local Government Area of the state was arrested with 200 Grammes of Cannabis on May 27, 2014.