Canadian Woman Gets 11–Year Jail Term In Nigeria For Importing Drugs
A Government High Court in Lagos has condemned 41-year-old Canadian public Adrienne Munju to 11 years in jail for bringing in 74 bundles of Canadian Uproarious, a strong kind of engineered weed, into Nigeria.
The medication, gauging a sum of 35.20 kilograms, was blocked by specialists recently.
Munju’s conviction came after her capture by the Public Medication Policing (NDLEA) on October 3, 2024, at Terminal 1 of Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Air terminal in Ikeja, Lagos.
She was captured during the normal leeway of travelers showing up on a KLM trip at the air terminal’s ‘D’ Appearance Lobby.
During her court appearance on Wednesday, Munju confronted a two-count charge connected with drug dealing.
She confessed to the two counts, prompting her conviction and condemning.
In a decision by Equity Dehinde Dipeolu, she was in this way sentenced and condemned to 11 years in jail.
In the wake of considering the allocutus introduced by the litigant’s advice, Equity Dipeolu condemned Munju to six years detainment on count one and five years on count two.
Be that as it may, the adjudicator furnished the convict with the choice of a fine of N50 million for every one of the two counts, adding up to N100 million.
In the mean time, in her explanation following her capture, she guaranteed that she was enrolled through a web-based stage to traffic the unlawful transfer for an installment of 10,000 Canadian dollars upon fruitful conveyance in Lagos.
She made sense of that she acknowledged the proposition since she really wanted the cash to subsidize her graduate degree program in Canada.
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