“Photojournalist” bags one-year imprisonment for possession of hard drug

A “photojournalist,” Okon Godwin Sunday, has been convicted and sentenced to a one-year imprisonment without option of fine for possession of 1.2kg of cannabis sativa by a Federal High Court, Abuja. Justice Inyang Ekwo held that he handed down the jail term after the plea for mercy by the convict and his lawyer, C.M. Wancha. Sunday had pleaded guilty to a one-count charge preferred against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), through its counsel, Lauretta Idiakhoa. In the charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/369/2022, the 32-year-old convict was arrested on…

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