{"id":37719,"date":"2017-11-07T11:20:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T10:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/?p=37719"},"modified":"2017-11-07T11:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T10:20:05","slug":"2-arraigned-court-allegedly-trafficking-hemp-kirikiri-maximum-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/2-arraigned-court-allegedly-trafficking-hemp-kirikiri-maximum-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Arraigned In Court For Allegedly Trafficking Hemp Into Kirikiri Maximum Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man, Bayo Abdulrahman, and a woman, Shadiat Obafemi, yesterday, appeared in a Federal High Court in Lagos, for allegedly trafficking 100 grammes and 1.1 kilogrammes of hemp at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Lagos.<br \/>\nThey were arraigned on two separate charges of one count each, bordering on drug trafficking by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2017\/11\/2-nabbed-attempting-sell-hemp-kirikiri-maximum-prisons-inmates\/\"> NDLEA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Abdulrahman, 33, and Obafemi, 26, pleaded guilty to the charges. After their pleas, the prosecutor, Mr. Jeremiah Aernan, reviewed the facts of the case before the court by tendering written statements of the accused.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other items he tendered were test analysis forms, request for scientific aid forms, laboratory reports, as well as the bulk of exhibits and urged the court to admit the documents in evidence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The judge, Justice Ayokunle Faji, consequently, admitted the documents as exhibits and adjourned the case to November 8 for sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the charges, the duo were said to have been apprehended on June 18, at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons, with volumes of substance suspected to be cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor said the accused intended to sell the substance to prison inmates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said that the hemp was a restricted narcotic similar to Cocaine and Heroin LSD., adding that hemp has been prohibited by the provisions of Sections 11 (c) of the NDLEA Act, Cap N30 Laws of the Federation, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The two accused arraigned yesterday, brings to three the number of persons arraigned in less than a week for similar offence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On November 3, the court sentenced one Patrick Amadi to 24 months imprisonment for sneaking hemp into the Kirikiri Prisons to sell to inmates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"grid-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/broke-no-law-saraki-insists-named-tax-haven-fraud\/\">SEE ALSO: \u201cI BROKE NO LAW\u201d \u2013 SARAKI INSISTS AFTER BEING NAMED IN \u2018TAX HAVEN\u2019 FRAUD<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man, Bayo Abdulrahman, and a woman, Shadiat Obafemi, yesterday, appeared in a Federal High Court in Lagos, for allegedly trafficking 100 grammes and 1.1 kilogrammes of hemp at the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":37720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10671,6686,10670],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kirikiri-eGist.png?fit=605%2C330&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128844,"url":"https:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/efcc-nabs-kirikiri-prison-boss-doctor\/","url_meta":{"origin":37719,"position":0},"title":"EFCC Nabs Kirikiri Prison Boss, Doctor","author":"Damilare Salami","date":"November 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The head of one of Nigeria\u2019s largest prisons (Kirikiri) and the medical doctor at the prison have been arrested. 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