ABIODUN ELEMORO SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT DRUG DEALING...

A drug dealer, Abiodun Elemoro, 29, father of 9-month old girl sentenced to life imprisonment by Lagos Federal High Court.

 The convict was brought before the court on April 26, 2014 by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on the allegation that he was caught in possession of the illicit substance without lawful authority.

Elemoro,in his confession told the court that prior to his arrest on April 24 last year, at Palm Church Street on the Lagos Island, where he used to dispense the hard drug to end users.

He added that the business fetched him between N3,000 and N5,000 on a daily basis.

However, the prosecutor, Mr. Orji Kalu, told the court that Elemoro, by his act, had put himself at variance with Section 11(c) of the NDLEA Act, Cap N30, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and urged the court to convict and sentence him accordingly.

Consequently, Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia pronounced the sentence on Thursday after Elemoro had pleaded guilty to dealing in 30.5 grammes of heroin, and on the strength of his confessional statement and the evidence tendered by the prosecution.

She said, “The court has noted that Elemoro is well advanced in the crime and will constitute a negative influence on the society, particularly his nine-month-old baby, if pardoned.”

The judge ordered the NDLEA to destroy the hard substance if there was no appeal against the judgment within 30 days