Chibuzor Paul Ezekware, Samuel Okafor and Goodwin Addo Abunne were each sentenced to 36 years imprisonment. Henry Ulangu Ukaegby and Innocent Akuziele will spend 16 years in jail each, while Junior Okafor was sentenced to 18 months behind bars.
Ezekware, Okafor and Abunne were also ordered to pay R11 500, R4 800 and R7 000 back to the state respectively. Ukaegby and Akuziele will pay R2 600 and R1 800 back to the state respectively.
The seventh suspect’s case will be heard in the Evander Regional Court on 10 May 2017.
The National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, Lieutenant General Mthandazo Ntlemeza, has welcomed the sentence, saying the Hawks do not aim to arrest suspect only, but to secure convictions and ensure that justice is served.
“We are clamping down on drugs and all other serious crimes and criminals must be warned that we will send them to jail for a very long time,” said Lieutenant General Ntlemeza.The suspects were arrested by the Hawks in Secunda and Crime Intelligence on 18 August 2016. (See photos of two of them on the day of arrest).
"The crackdown (called Project 24) on the syndicate came today after 14 months of investigation and gathering of information using unconventional methods,” said Capt Lucy Sekgotodi, provincial spokesperson for the Hawks on the day of arrest.The Hawks began moving in on the dealers at 04:00 that morning and arrested the seven men at various houses in Secunda and Trichardt.
They also confiscated five vehicles used in drug transactions.
10 comments:
Nigerians keep disgracing us outside the country. Now they have bagged 53 years in jail instead of doing honest work... no, they want to hammer.
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Good for them! Ndi Oshi! Amusu somebody!
I have igbo friends who are good, but i have begin to hate igbo tribe now, and i guess this igbo drug peddlers and not the ones that was born in Lagos, i guess is the village ones who didnt even go to school at all, we have many of them in Finland as well
When people see them with big cars and houses they will start comparing them with us leaving abroad and doing out legitimate.53 years in prison that's life sentence na
Hmmn.igbo kwenu🙌
Hmmn.igbo kwenu🙌
That's mostly true.But don't hate them.Economic demands made them turn to crime.But Yorubas & Edo deal in drugs too.They just are smarter.
#Nigeriansarenotcriminals. We just hate to be told the truth.
Anonymous 10:50am: you're a COW!!!
I'm certain that if truly you're in Finland (that's if you've passed river niger before), its obvious you're a CRIMINAL!
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds
We don,t know u or ur tribe,and we know that some tribe thought the Igbo how to do drugs,and that ,re still cultivating it up to this day.so it,s not Igbo thing.dealing in drugs is very disgusting and shamefully,so not in support of them.But u telling us ur begining to hate us is not new,we don,t regard u as friend.Even in ur base at Finland,u could be a criminal masquerading as as law abiding immigrant
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