Two infamous drug kingpins, 37-year-old Ajetsibo Emami, popularly often known as ‘Warri Kinsman’, and 51-year-old Solomon Akpomuai, have been convicted and sentenced to a mixed 10 years imprisonment by a Federal Excessive Court docket in Lagos.
Emami was arrested in Ikeja, Lagos State, on Saturday, June 28, 2025, after NDLEA operatives dismantled his drug trafficking community in a three-day operation, resulting in the arrest of three different suspects. Recovered from Emami’s community have been 24 jumbo baggage containing 681 pouches of Canadian Loud, a pressure of hashish weighing 414.2 kilograms.
The bust of Emami’s drug ring adopted credible intelligence on his try to maneuver the cargo to Lekki space of Lagos, from the place it is going to be distributed to different elements of the state and throughout the nation.
He was subsequently arraigned earlier than Justice Deinde Dipeolu of the Federal Excessive Court docket 8 Lagos in cost numbered FHC/L/636C/2025 bordering on dealing in illicit medicine.
In his ruling delivered on Monday, August 18, 2025, the trial choose convicted Emami on the one rely cost filed in opposition to him by NDLEA prosecutor, Assistant Commander of Narcotics Buhari Shuaibu Abdullahi, and sentenced him to 6 years in jail with an choice of N50million wonderful in lieu of jail.
In his case, Solomon Akpomuai was first arrested by males of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) alongside Shagamu-Ijebu-Ode expressway with 2,197.8 kilograms of skunk, a pressure of hashish on June 3, 2025, and he was transferred to NDLEA on June 16 after which he was arraigned in cost numbered FHC/L/635C earlier than Justice Dipeolu for trafficking illicit medicine in giant industrial amount.
Additionally, delivering his judgement on the matter, the trial choose convicted and sentenced Akpomuai to 4 years in jail with an choice of N50million wonderful.
Reacting to the event, chairman/chief government officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd), described the conviction of the 2 drug kingpins as a sign that Nigeria will prior to later surmount the menace of substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking because of the constructive outcomes of the present balanced method to the Company’s drug provide discount and drug demand discount efforts.
He counseled the judiciary, NDLEA officers concerned within the investigation and prosecution of the instances in addition to different stakeholders for his or her dedication to the reason for a drug-free nation.
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