Sokoto District Head jailed for drug as NDLEA intercepts fake $4.8m, CFA57m

Justice Ahmad Mahmud of the Federal High Court has sentenced an acting district head, Alhaji Umar Mohammed (aka Dan Bala) to five and a half years in jail.

He was found guilty on four count charges of possession and dealing in 436.38kgs cannabis and 7kgs psychotropic drugs brought against him.

Mohammed was convicted and sentenced to two years on each of counts 1 and 2 with an option of N1 million fine, and eight months on each of counts 3 and 4 without an option of fine.

The charges were brought against the district head in October 2022 by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Okene -Lokoja-Abuja expressway on Tuesday 10th October intercepted a commercial bus coming from Lagos to Kano.

A search of the bus led to the seizure of $4,880,000, and CFA57,000,000 suspected to be counterfeits.

Also, operatives in Edo State on Wednesday 11th October stormed the Orue forest, Owan West LGA where they arrested Happy Akashili, 37, and Solomon Uwesue, 40 in a hut located inside a cannabis farm measuring 2.367308 hectares which was destroyed, with 92kgs already processed skunk recovered, while 49kgs of same substance were also seized at Ogbeturu camp.