56-year old woman bags ten years in jail for cocaine trafficking

A 56-year-old mother of four, Oluwayemisi Owolabi, was yesterday sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, over cocaine trafficking.

 

Justice Rilwan Aikawa convicted and sentenced one Oluwayemisi Owolabi after she pleaded guilty to a one-count charge of drug trafficking.

 

 

The charges were brought against the convict by officers of the National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. She is age 56, a first-time offender and a single mother to four children. Her lawyer, Morenike Ogunleye, had pleaded for leniency on her behalf and had urged the court consider to consider her circumstances while sentencing her.

 

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It looked like the judge listened. The prosecutor had told the judge that the NDLEA Act had stipulated a life imprisonment for the offence.

Justice Aikawa ruled:

“I have listened to the plea made on her behalf by the counsel, and also listened to the prosecutor that she has no record of crime. I have to consider both her plea and what the law says about the crime. Consequently, I hereby sentence her to 10 years imprisonment, starting from the day of her arrest, which was on May 19th at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, during outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight to Saudi Arabia, with 330 grammes of cocaine.

 

 

 

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