By Iffy.
A Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced Alhaji Surajo Mohammed, a notorious drug dealer in Alaba Rago area of Ojo to seven-year imprisonment for drug trafficking.
Confirming in a statement, the spokesman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Femi Babafemi, who made this known on Sunday said the conviction came 10 months after his arrest.
“Mohammed was arrested by operatives of the agency with 941.15kgs cannabis on Monday 20th December 2021 and arraigned in court in charge number FHC/L/370c/2021.
However, in a judgment delivered last Thursday, Justice Yellin Dogoro however gave the convict an option of N7m fine, Babafemi revealed.
He also said desperate attempts by the Tramadol drug cartel to smuggle in over 2, 465, 000 tablets of the pharmaceutical opioid through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos have been foiled by operatives of the NDLEA.
