{"id":155344,"date":"2019-09-26T10:52:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T09:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=155344"},"modified":"2019-09-26T10:52:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T09:52:52","slug":"ndlea-arrests-man-for-allegedly-selling-marijuana-in-its-lagos-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=155344","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA arrests man for allegedly selling marijuana in its Lagos office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Jigawa-NDLEA-arrests-suspects-abusing-rubber-solution-suck-and-die-lizard-dung.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a man, Ayobiojo Hammed, for allegedly peddling marijuana at its Lagos command\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Hammed, of 7, Moshalashi Street, Empire, Surulere, was arraigned on Wednesday before a Federal High Court in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Sule Hassan remanded him in prison custody, following his plea of guilty to a one-count charge of unlawfully distributing 630 grammes of the narcotic drug.<\/p>\n<p>He adjourned till October 11 for review of the facts of the case and sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, NDLEA prosecutor Fingere Dinneys alleged that Hammed was arrested on March 26, 2019, while distributing 630 grammes of the substance to some construction workers on the NDLEA\u2019s premises, No. 4, Shaw Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard that the defendant\u2019s offence infringed Section 20(1)(a) of the NDLEA Act, 2004 and was punishable under Section 20(2)(a) of the same Act.<\/p>\n<p>Following Hammed\u2019s plea, his counsel, C. W. Ezeonyeziaku, who stood in for Mrs. Susan Agu, did not oppose the prosecution\u2019s remand application.<\/p>\n<p>The charge against the defendant marked FHC\/L\/198c\/19, reads: \u201cThat you Ayobiojo Hammed, Male, Adult, of 7, Moshalashi Street, Empire Surulere, Lagos on or about 26th March, 2019, at 4, Shaw Road, Ikoyi, Lagos without lawful authority distributed 630 grammes of Cannabis Sativa otherwise known as Marijuana, a narcotic drug similar to Cocaine, LSD and Heroin and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 20(1)(a) and punishable under Section 20(2)(a) of the NDLEA Act 2004\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a man, Ayobiojo Hammed, for allegedly peddling marijuana at its Lagos command\u2019s office. Hammed, of 7, Moshalashi Street, Empire, Surulere, was arraigned on Wednesday before a Federal High Court in Lagos. Justice Sule Hassan remanded him in prison custody, following his plea of guilty to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,250,1566],"class_list":["post-155344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-lagos","tag-ndlea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}