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

SENATOR SARAKI'S TRIAL,WILL BEGIN ON THE 21ST OF OCTOBER 2015.

               Today tuesday,Senator Bukola Saraki appeared before the Code of Conduct Tribunal and he pleaded not guilty .Justice Danladi Umar,Chairman of the Tribunal,ajourned the sitting to allow Saraki receive proper brief of the 13 count charge against him.Saraki is accused of offences which include anticipatory declaration of assets,false declaration of assets in forms he filed before the Code of Conduct Bureau while he was governor of Kwara state.Other charges are that the Senate President failed to declare some assets he acquired while in office as governor.Among other offences includes allegedly acquiring assets beyond his legitimate earnings,Saraki is also accused of operating foreign accounts while being a public officer governor and senator.The charges were prepared by M.S Hassan,a deputy director in the office of the Attorney General of the Federation.The said offences violated sections of the fifth Schedule of 1999 Nigerian Constitution as amended.He is also said to have breached Section 2 of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act and punishable under paragraph 9 of the said fifth Schedule of the Nigerian Constitution.Both prosecution and defence counsel have agreed on October 21,22 and 23 for the main trial.

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