{"id":11624,"date":"2024-01-12T11:03:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T11:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ibadan-man-jailed-3-years-for-unlawful-possession-of-indian-hemp\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T11:03:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T11:03:34","slug":"ibadan-man-jailed-3-years-for-unlawful-possession-of-indian-hemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ibadan-man-jailed-3-years-for-unlawful-possession-of-indian-hemp\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibadan man jailed 3 years for unlawful possession of Indian Hemp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Federal High Court in Ibadan on Friday sentenced an illicit drug dealer, Tofade Ojo, 48, to three years in prison over unlawful trafficking of 17.5kg of Cannabis Sativa.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering judgment, Justice Uche Agomoh held that she sentenced Ojo based on the overwhelming evidence against him and the guilty plea he entered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrdinarily, the punishment for this offence is life imprisonment, but the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015 forbids the court from imposing a life imprisonment punishment on a first time offender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that the convict is truly remorseful of his action and would use the opportunity provided as a second chance never to partake in any form of crime again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, to serve as a warning to others thinking of engaging in the illicit trade, Ojo is sentenced to three years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sentence takes note of the date the convict had been remanded in the prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weed exhibit found in his possession shall be destroyed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA),\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the defense counsel, Mr Kehinde Olawuni, had prayed the court to be liberal in sentencing his client.<\/p>\n<p>Olawuni added that the convict had already spent close to two years in Agodi Correctional Centre in Ibadan before he eventually pleaded guilty to the crime.<\/p>\n<p>The NDLEA counsel, Ms Ann Balogun had informed the court that Ojo was arraigned on a-count charge of unlawful dealing in Cannabis Sativa.<\/p>\n<p>According to Balogun, the convict was arrested by vigilant Customs officials in Ibadan on April 5, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>She further disclosed that Ojo, who was 46 years old at that time, was caught in possession of a brown sack containing 17.5kg of Indian Hemp and handed over to the NDLEA operatives.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor stated that the offence contravened Section 11(C ) of the NDLEA Act Cap 30 Laws of the Federation 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Ibadan man jailed 3 years for unlawful possession of Indian Hemp<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Federal High Court in Ibadan on Friday sentenced an illicit drug dealer, Tofade Ojo, 48, to three years in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614,15],"tags":[135,180],"class_list":["post-11624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court","category-news","tag-court","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}