Four hard drug syndicates were charged by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Thursday with illegally importing prohibited narcotics before a Federal High Court in Lagos State.
Ogunmeru Oluwafunsho, 49; Adewale Adegbeti, 42; Adeleke Abdulrazaq, 43; and Dairo Quam, 22, are the defendants who were arraigned before Justice Daniel Osiagor.
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They are charged with two offenses that relate to conspiracy and the illicit export of drugs that were brought out by the NDLEA.
The defendants were detained on March 10, 2023, at the SAHCO import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State, while cargo was being cleared for entry on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Johannesburg, South Africa, via Addis Ababa, according to the prosecutor, Augustine Nwagu.
He said all the defendants conspired among themselves to illegally and unlawfully export to the country, 11.90 kilograms of heroin and 500 grams of cannabis Sativa.
However, the defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Following their plea of not guilty, Nwagu asked the court for a trial date and also urged the court to remand them in prison till the determination of the charge against them.
But their lawyers, Benson Ndakara and Uche Okoronkwo, urged the court to admit bail to their clients, adding that two of the defendants were suffering from ailments that could not be handled by the correctional services.
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