Two drug traffickers arrested by officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja will spend the next 14 years in prison custody.
The convicts, Mbechi Obiageli Susan, 38, and Obiora Boniface Okechukwu, 36, according to Justice Chukwu Evoh of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, will spend seven years each in prison for unlawful importation of narcotics.
Justice Chukwu said that both convicts will spend seven years each in prison custody after pleading guilty to unlawful importation of narcotics without wasting the precious time of the court.
He held that the convicts have shown sufficient remorse and that the court expects them to turn a new leaf and contribute to the development of the country after completing their jail terms.
Mbechi Obiageli Susan, with Nigerian international passport number A00288396, claimed that she was three months pregnant when stopped for routine search on her way from Sao-Paulo, Brazil.
She warned that scanning machine could harm her unborn baby.
However, when placed under observation, she excreted 51 pellets of cocaine weighing 900 grammes.
She hails from Oduma village in Enugu State.
Obiora Boniface Okechukwu, who also arrived from Brazil, was arrested for ingesting 91 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.6kg.
The Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade, said that he expects others to learn from their experience.
Giade said: “Drug trafficking kills dreams.
“It is expected that others outside that are contemplating drug trafficking will learn from this sentence and shun the criminal act.”
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