A 28-year-old student, Harrison Jugbo, is to spend the next 12 months in jail for trafficking in Cannabis Sativa (Hemp), a Federal High Court ruled in Lagos on Tuesday.
The convict was brought before Justice Ibrahim Buba by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on a charge of trafficking in hemp weighing 7kg.
Jugbo had pleaded guilty to the charge.
After his plea was taken, the facts of the case was reviewed by the prosecutor, Mr Jeremiah Aernan of the NDLEA, who tendered the following exhibits: a certificate of test analysis, packaging of substance form, and the bulk of drug exhibit.
Others are a request for scientific aid form, and the statement of the convict taken in English language.
Aernan also tendered a drug analysis form, and a large sealed envelope containing remnants of the restricted substance.
The court admitted the exhibits and marked them accordingly.
The prosecutor then urged the court to convict the accused based on his plea and evidences adduced.
In its judgment, the court found the accused guilty as charged.
Buba sentenced Jugbo to a term of one year imprisonment, beginning from the date of his arrest.
The convict had begged the court to give him another opportunity to turn a new leaf.
According to the charge, the NDLEA said that the convict was arrested on April 2 at a motor park in Lagos, where he was about to board a vehicle to Jos, Plateau.
He said that the convict had come to Lagos to purchase the quantity of narcotics to be taken to Jos, where it would
be sold.
He was about embarking on his fourth trip when the management of a transport company discovered at the park before alerting the NDLEA.
The offence contravened Sections 11 (c) of the NDLEA Act, Laws of the Federation, 2004. (NAN)
