NDLEA charges teenager with drug trafficking
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arraigned a 17-year-old before the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on a two-count charge of drug trafficking.
He was accused of conspiring and trafficking three kilogrammes of cannabis “without lawful authority.”
The NDLEA, in a charge sheet signed by its prosecutor L.N Nor, alleged that the teenager committed the offence on October 3 in Ikorodu, a Lagos suburb.
NDLEA said the offence contravened sections 11 (c) and 14(b) of the NDLEA Act, Cap N30 Laws of the Federation, 2004.
The act specifies life imprisonment if convicted of the offence.
No date has been fixed for the arraignment of the teenager.
(NAN)
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