An 87 year-old woman, Agbomabiwon Maria Seriki, on Thursday has been convicted by a Federal High Court in Lagos for dealing in 10.3 kilogrammes of Cannabis Sativa and ordered to .
The convict, who resides at 9, Osunba Street, Oto-Awori, Ijanikin, Lagos, on Tuesday, November 7 pleaded guilty to one count charge of unlawful dealing and possession of 10.3 kilogrammes of Cannabis Sativa, a narcotic similar in effect to cocaine, heroine and LSD, when she was arraigned by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) before the court.
Presiding over the hearing, judge Hadizat Shagari ordered that the convict should be remanded at the Lagos State Old Peoples’ Home in Yaba, pending when any member of her family, who is willing and able to take proper care of her, write to the court to take custody of her.
The prosecutor, Aliyu Abubakar, had however urged the court to adjourn the case till yesterday upon her plea of being guilty to the offence, so as to review the fact of the case.
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At the hearing which resumed yesterday, the prosecutor after reviewing the fact of the case, submitted some exhibits which includes the convict’s confessional statements, drug test analysis, and the bulk of the Cannabis Sativa seized from her, which were admitted as exhibits by the court.
After due assessment of the exhibits, the court pronounced the 87 years old woman, convicted as charged.
However, the counsel to the convict, Prosper Ojakovo, pleaded for mercy, that the court be lenient in its sentencing of his client. Ojakovo told the court that the woman is an aged woman who has no one to take care of her as she is also a first-offender.
In sentencing the convict, Justice Rabiu-Shagari considered her age and summated that it is of no reason sentencing her to prison.
Consequently the judge, ordered that the convict be remanded at the Lagos State’s Old Peoples’ Home, Yaba, pending the time when any member of her family member is willing to take proper care of her with the court’s approval.
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