{"id":227208,"date":"2022-11-06T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T11:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=227208"},"modified":"2022-11-06T12:01:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T11:01:41","slug":"ex-footballer-sentenced-to-5-years-imprisonment-for-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/11\/06\/ex-footballer-sentenced-to-5-years-imprisonment-for-drug-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-footballer sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for drug trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former professional footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior, has been sentenced to five years\u2019 imprisonment for cocaine trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court in Lagos gave the judgement after Okafor pleaded guilty to the charge of trafficking in the banned substance made against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).<\/p>\n<p>WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that in October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/10\/02\/ex-footballer-arrested-at-lagos-airport-for-cocaine-trafficking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Okafor was arrested by NDLEA operatives<\/a> at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, on his arrival from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa on board an Ethiopian airlines flight with 1.40kg crack cocaine concealed in his bags.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor, Augustine Nwagu, explained that Okafor was arrested with 1.4 kilograms of cocaine on his arrival from Brazil on September 26,2022, at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Nwagu told the court that the offence committed by the convict, contravened section 11(a) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act Cap N30 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under the same Act.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-219722 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/kunlenet07\/2022\/10\/02\/Okafor-Emmanuel-Junior-2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/kunlenet07\/2022\/10\/02\/Okafor-Emmanuel-Junior-2a.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/kunlenet07\/2022\/10\/02\/Okafor-Emmanuel-Junior-2a-132x300.jpg 132w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/kunlenet07\/2022\/10\/02\/Okafor-Emmanuel-Junior-2a-450x1024.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/kunlenet07\/2022\/10\/02\/Okafor-Emmanuel-Junior-2a-768x1749.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/kunlenet07\/2022\/10\/02\/Okafor-Emmanuel-Junior-2a-674x1536.jpg 674w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-219723 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/kunlenet07\/2022\/10\/02\/Okafor-Emmanuel-Junior.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/kunlenet07\/2022\/10\/02\/Okafor-Emmanuel-Junior.jpg 984w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/kunlenet07\/2022\/10\/02\/Okafor-Emmanuel-Junior-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/kunlenet07\/2022\/10\/02\/Okafor-Emmanuel-Junior-768x337.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following his plea of guilty, the prosecutor asked the court to sentence him in accordance with the section of the law he was charged with.<\/p>\n<p>But his lawyer, Dennis Warri, in his allucutor, pleaded with the court to tamper justice with mercy in sentencing the convict.<\/p>\n<p>Warri urged the court to consider the timely plea of guilty of the convict, adding that he has become remorseful since he was arrested and vowed not to get involved in crime.<\/p>\n<p>He particularly urged the court to consider the option of fine in lieu of custodian sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Oweibo, in his judgement, sentenced the convict to five years imprisonment, starting from the date of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The judge, however, gave the convict option of N1million fine in lieu of the jail terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former professional footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior, has been sentenced to five years\u2019 imprisonment for cocaine trafficking. 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