Two co-defendants in a suit filed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) against suspended DCP Abba Kyari over an alleged drug trade were convicted and sentenced to two years in jail by a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday.
In a ruling, Justice Emeka Nwite noted that because Chibunna Umeibe and Emeka Ezenwanne, the 6th and 7th defendants, acknowledged to violating the NDLEA’s charges 5, 6 and 7, they “are consequently convicted accordingly.”
On each of charges 5, 6, and 7, Justice Nwite sentenced them to two years in jail.
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He stated that the sentences would begin on the day the defendants were apprehended by the NDLEA and would run concurrently.
According to NAN, the two defendants, Umeibe and Ezenwanne, are the 6th and 7th defendants in the case, respectively, and were apprehended by Nigerian police at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu and turned over to the NDLEA.
The anti-narcotics agency had filed five, six, and seven counts against them, and they had pled guilty to all of them.
Sunday Joseph, counsel for the NDLEA, told Justice Emeka Nwite that two applications seeking a plea bargain in the cases of Umeibe and Ezenwanne had been submitted at the resumed hearing.
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The motions, dated June 13, were filed on June 14, according to Joseph.
E. U. Okenyi, the lawyers for the two defendants, agreed with Joseph’s proposal.
Also, counsel for other defendants, including Kyari, did not oppose the motions.
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