SENATE APPROVES DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG TRAFFICKERS. (PHOTO).

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 Senate Approves Death Penalty For Drug Traffickers The Senate has approved the death penalty for those convicted on the charge of drug trafficking in the country. The punishment prescribed in the extant NDLEA Act is a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The resolution of the Senate followed its consideration of a report of the Committees on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters and Drugs and Narcotics, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Act (Amendment) Bill, 2024. The Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights & Legal Matters presented the report during plenary, Sen.Mohammed Monguno (APC-Borno North). The bill, which passed its third reading, aims to update the list of dangerous drugs, strengthen the operations of the NDLEA, review penalties, and empower the establishment of laboratories. Section 11 of the current Act prescribes that “any person who, without lawful authority; imports, manufactures, produces, processes, plants or grows the drugs popularly

4 OF LCDA STAFF,ARRESTED FOR EXTORTION.

•Four staff of Ikosi-Isheri Local Council Development Area, LCDA, arrested for allegedly extorting money from motorists under the guise that they are traffic officers         The four staff's arrested are Balogun Fatai,Ayo Fapohunda,Oyetunji Olabisi and Rahimi Kamilu of Ikosi,Isheri Local Council Development Area,LCDA,have been arrested for allegedly extorting money from motorist under the guise that they are traffic officers.In two days of their operation,the four suspects had extorted about N180,000 by finning motorist they arrested illegally.They met their water loo when they attempted to extort money from a motorist at Lagos toll gate.The motorist reported the matter at the task force office which led to the arrest of the suspected culprits.According to Tony Nanewodo,owner of mercedes Benz C-class 2013 model,was arrested at the toll gate for stopping to ease himself,but lamented that he was issued ticked for picking up a passenger on the road,an act he never committed.One of the suspect,Fatai,said they remit the money collected to the purse of the council and that the council employed the services of a consultant to help in collecting the money from motorists.

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