Prison Warder To Spend 10 Years As Inmate After Selling Cannabis To Prisoners

A 31-year-old warder, Frank Obi, was yesterday sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Lagos, for drug trafficking.
Justice Ibrahim Buba sentenced the convict after he pleaded guilty to a one-count charge of supplying restricted narcotics to inmates at the Kirikiri maximum prisons, Lagos.
In his judgment, Justice Buba reprimanded the convict for being a shame to lawful authorities, and accordingly, sentenced him.
“Following the guilty plea entered by the accused, he is hereby convicted as charged, and accordingly, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, without option of fine,” he held.
The sentence shall take effect from May 6, when the convict was arrested, while the convict is to be jailed at the Ikoyi Prisons.
The judge said that it was indeed very shameful, that a prison official who knows the values of the prison system, and ought to be a custodian of the law, is now the perpetrator of crime.