The National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Friday disclosed that three drug kingpins and 16 other offenders have been convicted and sentenced to a total 302 years in prison for “trafficking and dealing in illicit drugs such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, cannabis and opioids.” The convictions followed their arrests and diligent prosecution by the NDLEA. This was contained in statement released Friday by the director of media and advocacy, Femi Babafemi, which indicated that the 19 convicts top the list of 414 drug traffickers and dealers convicted by the Federal High Court in Benue, Bauchi, Edo, Lagos, Ogun, Gombe and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) between July 1 and 31 2024, based on charges filed against them by the anti-narcotics agency.
Babafemi stated that one of the three kingpins, 50-year-old Bolanle Lookman Dauda, was arrested in an intelligence-led raid by operatives of a special operation unit in NDLEA at Ibiye, along Lagos-Badagry expressway, while attempting to cross the border to deliver the consignment in Ghana on Saturday, May 25, 2024. “He was subsequently arraigned before Hon. Justice Ambrose Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Lagos, in charge number FHC/L/537C/2024.
In his judgement delivered on July 19, 2024, Justice Allagoa convicted and sentenced him to 21 years in prison or payment of an option of N30 million fine. “Aanother kingpin who was put behind bars is 34-year-old Ikeh Stanley Ifeanyi, who was arrested at the popula.