A Lagos businessman, Arokodare Damil Ebenezer, has bagged seven years imprisonment for trafficking in 32.24 of loud, a special species of Cannabis Sativa (marijuana).
Justice A. Aluko of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, sentenced Ebenezer the owner of Damillionz Takeout, located at Lekki, Lagos on Monday, April 28, 2025.
He was given the sentence after he pleaded guilty to a two count-charge of unlawful importation and dealing in the prohibited drug.
The man was arraigned on the charges by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
The NDLEA prosecutor, Barrister Abu Ibrahim told the court that he was arrested on March 10, 2025, at FedEx Import warehouse of NAHCO Import Shed, a Customs Area of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja-Lagos, where he had gone to received 31.30 kilograms of drug, which he unlawfully imported from the United States of America (USA).
The lawyer also told the court that on March 24, 2025 that Ebenezer at Flat 7, D 11, Lekki Gardens, Horizon 11 Meadow Hall, Lekki, Ikate-Elegunshi, Lagos State with unlawful authority, dealt in 94 grams of the same drug.