Couple Sentenced To 22-yr Imprisonment For Drug Trafficking

A businessman, Ajah Johnson Uchenna and his spouse, Rosemary have been sentenced to a complete of twenty-two and a half years imprisonment by Justice Deinde Dipeolu of the Federal Excessive Court docket 8 in Lagos for dealing in illicit medication.

The couple, who had been sentenced on Monday, August 4, 2025, had been first arrested on Friday, June 13, by operatives of the Division of State Safety (DSS) in Ojo space of the state and transferred to NDLEA together with 277.5kg skunk, a pressure of hashish.

NDLEA’s spokesperson Femi Babafemi stated whereas they had been nonetheless being investigated in custody, credible intelligence revealed that the household enterprise was happening of their home and this led to a raid of their dwelling and a packing retailer the place 231kg of similar substance was recovered by NDLEA operatives on Tuesday, July 1st.

They had been subsequently arraigned in cost quantity FHC/L/632C/2025 on the Federal Excessive Court docket Lagos on a four-count cost bordering on conspiracy, dealing and storage of 414.2 kilograms of hashish sativa.

Whereas delivering his judgement on the case, Justice Dipeolu convicted Mrs. Rosemary Uchenna on counts 1, 2, and three and sentenced her to 17 years in jail with out an possibility of positive, whereas her husband Johnson Uchenna was convicted and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment with out possibility of positive on depend 1 and 6 months in jail on depend 4 with an possibility of N1 million positive.

Along with the jail phrases, the trial choose additionally ordered the sum of ₦3, 407,000.00 recovered from the couple as proceeds of crime to be forfeited to the Federal Authorities.

Equally, a Federal Excessive Court docket in Kano presided by Justice Simon Amobeda has convicted and sentenced a 42-year-old Indian woman, Neetu Neetu to 5 years imprisonment for importing 72 parcels of heroin manufacturing facility sealed in wafer wraps and packaged as candies, weighing 11 kilograms into Nigeria by the Mallam Aminu Kano Worldwide Airport (MAKIA) Kano.

The category A drug consignment was recovered from Neetu’s baggage after a radical search, following processed credible intelligence, throughout an inward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR1431 from Bangkok, Thailand by way of Vietnam and Doha on the arrival corridor of the Kano airport on Friday, March 14, 2025.
She was subsequently arraigned in cost quantity FHC/KN/CR/65/2025 earlier than Justice Amobeda who finally sentenced her to 10 years on two counts with an possibility of N2million positive.

In like method, a 42-year-old Angolan businessman Mbala Dajou Abuba was convicted and sentenced to 5 years in jail by Justice Mohammed Yunusa of a Federal Excessive Court docket in Kano following his arrest and arraignment by NDLEA for ingesting 120 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.829 kilograms.

Abuba who’s from the Zaire province in Angola was arrested on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, on the screening level of the Kano airport whereas attempting to board Egypt Air flight MS 880 to Istanbul, Turkey by way of Cairo.