BY ABDULGAFAR OLADIMEJI, KANO
A Kano State Magistrate’s court has sentenced one Auwalu Rijiyar Lemu to six months in jail for smuggling hard drugs into the court’s detention facility.
The convict was said to have connived with two others, now at large, to conceal a contraband substance known as Diazepam inside the food stuff that they brought for inmates in the court’s detention.
The charge brought against the convict, read in an open court, indicated that Rijiyar committed the offence during his visit to an inmate who was awaiting trial in court.
It was gathered that an official of the Nigeria Correctional Service, who was on duty at the time, detected that some illicit items were concealed inside the food stuff for the inmate.
Rijiyar confessed to the crime. He pleaded with the court for leniency, saying that he was lured into the act by his accomplices now at large.
The presiding Magistrate, Auwalu Yusuf, sentenced the defendant to six months in jail with option of N20,000 fine.
