Court sentenced Pakistan Student 18 months for Importation of heroine

    

A Federal High Court in lagos Today sentence one Iftikhar Arslan,a Pakistan citizen to 18 months for importing 25.4Kg of heroine into Nigeria.
Justice Aneke said the sentence will run from April 5th 2014 when the convict was arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
Arslan pleaded with the Judge that he did not know how the drugs came into his bag,that he is a medical student.

According  to the NDLEA, the 19-year-old, had on April 5, 2014, been caught in possession of the said quantity of Heroine at the E-Arrival Hall of Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, during the inward clearance of a Qatar Airways  from Doha.
He had been charged to court and arraigned on one count bordering on violation  of Section 11 (a) of the NDLEA Act, Cap N30, Laws of the Federation 2004.The convict had, upon reading the charge to him, pleaded guilty.
Arslan begged the judge to be lenient with him,  saying he had no relative in Nigeria.

He said, “I beg you, my Lord, have mercy on me. I don’t know how the drug entered into my bag. I am a medical student, my educational career is destroyed.“I don’t have anybody here, my people are in Pakistan.”
He ordered the NDLEA to destroy the hard drug recovered from the convict if the judgment was not challenged in 30 days.