They were initially arrested by men of the Civil Defence Corps and transferred to NDLEA for further investigation and prosecution.
Delivering his ruling in the matter, Justice Akintayo Aluko of the Federal High Court, Lagos convicted the Ghanaians of conspiracy and dealing in cannabis and thereafter sentenced each of them to eight years in prison.
Meanwhile; a pregnant woman, a nursing mother and a 200-level university student were among the twenty eight persons arrested with about nine thousand four hundred and thirty seven point six kilograms of cannabis and one hundred and thirty eight and fifty three tablets of pharmaceutical opioids among others by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
A statement by NDLEA’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi said the arrest was made during interdiction operations across twelve states, including; Yobe, Ondo, Edo, AkwaIbom, Imo, Jigawa, Kogi, Adamawa, Kaduna, Kwara, Lagos, the Federal Capital Territory and Rivers.
In the meantime; the NDLEA Chairman and Chief Executive, Mohammed Buba Marwa has commended men of the agency for their effort and also charged the operatives not to rest on their oars.
