Fisherman caught smuggling Indian hemp to detained suspect


An Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday sentenced a fisherman, Aminu Musa, 43, to three months in prison without an option of fine for attempting to smuggle Indian hemp to a suspect being held by the police.
The Senior Magistrate, Mrs. Idayat Akanni, convicted Musa of no fixed address after he pleaded guilty to the one-count charge against him.
Akanni said, “I hereby sentence Musa without an option to pay a fine because he was arrested many times by the police on this kind of offence.
“It seems he has not desisted from such crimes. He will, therefore, be punished to serve as deterrent to people of such character.’’
Earlier, the prosecutor, Inspector Audu Bitrus, had told the court that Inspector Rufai Sule, a Charge Room Officer attached to Life Camp Police Station, Abuja, arrested the convict on November 21, 2013.
He said that on the said date at about 4 p.m., the convict unlawfully packed food with cigarettes and dry leaves suspected to be Indian hemp in a food flask.
Bitrus said that the food was to be delivered to one Odu, a suspect in police cell, with an intention to aid his escape, adding that Musa, however, was arrested.
The prosecutor said the convict had been arrested many times for a similar offence, stressing that the (convict) had refused to desist from the act.

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