NDLEA ACCUSES MAN OF SWALLOWING 935 GRAMS OF COCAINE.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Friday brought one David Achebe under the steady gaze of the Federal High Court in Lagos for professedly trafficking in 935 grams of cocaine.
The office asserted that Achebe gulped the unlawful substance and was captured on December 21, 2016, at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, while endeavoring to advance out of the nation to Hong Kong.
In a charge stamped, FHC/L/36C/17, which it introduced under the watchful eye of the court on Friday, the office said Achebe was captured by its agents at the NDLEA Screening Point II, amid the outward leeway of Ethiopian Airline.
The denounced was charged before Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo on two checks.
In the charges, the NDLEA said Achebe "without legitimate expert sent out 935g of cocaine, which you gulped yourself, in your home."
The indicting counsel for the organization, Mrs. Juliana Iroabuchi, told Justice Oguntoyinbo that the blamed acted in opposition to Section 11 (b) (d) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act, Cap N30, Law of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 and was at risk to being rebuffed under a similar law.
Achebe, in any case, argued not blameworthy when the charges were perused to him.
In perspective of his not liable request, the prosecutor, Iroabuchi, encouraged the judge to settle a date for trial, saying she had in regards to 10 observers to call to demonstrate the case.
The barrier guide, Mr. Oke Ojakovo, educated the judge that he had recorded a safeguard application for his customer and had served same on the prosecutor. In any case, the prosecutor advised the judge that she wished to restrict the safeguard application, including that she required two days to document her reaction.
Subsequently, Justice Oguntoyinbo dismissed till March 20, 2017, to hear the application for safeguard while she settled May 3, 2017 for beginning of trial.