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News (Media Awareness Project) - Nigeria: NDLEA Nabs Councillor For Drug Offence In Bauchi
Title:Nigeria: NDLEA Nabs Councillor For Drug Offence In Bauchi
Published On:2008-10-29
Source:Vanguard (Nigeria)
Fetched On:2008-10-30 04:29:45
NDLEA NABS COUNCILLOR FOR DRUG OFFENCE IN BAUCHI

BAUCHI-The Bauchi State command of the National Drug Law Enforcement
Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a supervisory councilor in one of the
local governments in Bauchi State for a drug related offence. Six
others were arrested for a similar offence.

Parading the suspects before the news men in Bauchi, the state
command of NDLEA, Sule Momodu said the suspects were arrested with
23.9 kilogram of Indian hemp and psychotropic substances.

Momodu said the command acted on intelligent information received
from the public, he lamented the act of a youth councilor that
suppose to discourage the youths in involving in drugs but the
councilor himself was into drug.

Momodu expressed optimism that a day would come when drug traffickers
would be adequately punished in proportion with the damage they cause
the society.

According to him, to discourage the growing popularity of drug
trafficking and abuse in the country, the Nigerian judiciary has been
challenged to apply the full weight of the law which prescribes a
maximum jail term of twenty-five years for convicts.
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