The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has convicted and sentenced two co-defendants of the suspended DCP Abba Kyari to six years imprisonment in the drug trafficking charges filed against them by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
Delivering a judgment on the matter, Justice Emeka Nwite held that having admitted to have committed the offence preferred against them in counts 5, 6 and 7 by the NDLEA that Chibunna Umeibe and Emeka Ezenwanne, who are 6th and 7th defendants in the case are hereby convicted accordingly.
The judge thereafter sentenced them to two years’ imprisonment in each of counts 5, 6 and 7.
Justice Nwite held that the terms, which run concurrently, would commence from the day the defendants were arrested by the NDLEA.
The convicts were arrested at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu by the Nigerian police and handed over to the NDLEA.
They had pleaded guilty to five, six and seven counts preferred against them by the anti-narcotic agency during their arraignment
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Umeibe and Ezenwanne had through their counsel filed a motion for plea bargain in an attempt to get soft landing.
