THE Federal High Court on Monday in Abuja sentenced a 28-year-old man, Musa Idris, to six months in prison for trafficking cocaine, a hard drug.
The convict had pleaded guilty on Oct.10, 2016 to the amended charge of trafficking 22.4 grammes of cocaine, contrary to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Act.
Justice Ahmed Musa handed down the sentence after listening to the plea of the Defence Counsel, Mr Abel Ozioko.
Musa said that he had taken note of the fact that the convict did not waste the time of the court before pleading guilty.
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“I have also taken consideration of the confirmation from the prosecution that the government has no previous criminal record on the convict before now,’’ the judge said.
He also pointed out that the convict had been in prison custody for four years without bail.
Musa said the law had provided that an accused should be charged to court within a reasonable period of time and “four years in detention is not a reasonable time.’’
He said that the lengthy detention was a breach of the constitutional privileges and violation of the rights of the accused person.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Mrs M.E. Faruna, had reviewed the facts of the case and tendered exhibits marked A to A(h), which was admitted in evidence.
The convict was arrested by operatives of the NDLEA on Aug 1, 2014, in Kaduna for trafficking 22.4 grammes of cocaine.
According to his statement to the NDLEA, the convict who is a commercial tricycle driver (Keke Napep) was usually patronised by one Mr Daniel, now at large.
The convict usually carried this customer to a spot where he collected his parcel of the envelope.
He had been doing this for some time until the time when he had to be going alone to get this parcel and deliver to Mr Daniel.
On the day of his arrest, it was discovered that it was his name and phone number written on the back of the envelope which contained the 22.4 grammes of cocaine.
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