Ex-Footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Sentenced To 5 Years Imprisonment For Drug Trafficking | Football/Soccer

NIGERIA: Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted and sentenced a former skilled footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior to 5 years' imprisonment for cocaine trafficking.

The judgment was handed down after Emmanuel pleaded responsible to the cost of trafficking within the banned substance made towards him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

The former footballer, in keeping with the prosecutor, Augustine Nwagu, was arrested with 1.4 kilograms of cocaine on his arrival from Brazil on September 26,2022, on the arrival corridor of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.

Nwagu advised the courtroom that the offense dedicated by the convict, contravened part 11(a) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act Cap N30 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable underneath the identical Act.

Following his plea of ​​responsible, the prosecutor requested the courtroom to condemn him in accordance with the part of the regulation he was charged with.

But his lawyer, Dennis Warri, in his allucutor, pleaded with the courtroom to tamper justice with mercy in sentencing the convict.

Warri urged the courtroom to contemplate the well timed plea of ​​responsible of the convict, including that he has turn out to be remorseful since he was arrested and vowed to not become involved in crime.

He significantly urged the courtroom to contemplate the choice of positive in lieu of custodian sentence.

Justice Oweibo, in his judgment, sentenced the convict to 5 years imprisonment, ranging from the date of his arrest.

The choose, nonetheless, gave the convict possibility of N1million positive in lieu of the jail phrases.