Justice Friday Ogazi of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, sentenced a 25-year-old man biker, Usman Musa, to 21 months for trafficking in prohibited substances.

Musa was convicted and sentenced by the judge after he pleaded guilty to three charges made against him by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

The convict was arrested while peddling the prohibited drugs at Ajegunle-Apapa area of Lagos.

The prosecutor, Juliana Negedu, told the court the convict was apprehended on February 20, 2026, for being in unlawful possession of 618 grammes of cannabis sativa, 55 grammes of Rohypnol, a psychotropic and 46 grammes of Tramadol (225mg), another controlled narcotic substance with similar classification.

Negedu also informed the court that the convict used an unregistered high grade motorcycle with Chassis no: Sj25pb104233, to peddle the illicit substances.

She told the court that the illegal acts of the convict contravened Section 11(c) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act Cap N30 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.

Following the guilty plea of the convict to the charges, the prosecutor urged the court to sentence him based on his guilty plea, confessional statement and the exhibits tendered.

She also prayed the court to finally forfeit the motorcycle used as an instrumentality of the illicit acts to the Federal Government.

However, the convict’s lawyer, Kate Igbo, in her allocutor, prayed the court to temper justice with mercy in sentencing her client.

The lawyer also pleaded with the court to give her client a non-custodian sentence or a fine option in lieu of the jail term.

In his judgment, Justice Ogazi, after citing plethora of authorities and after reading the convict’s confessional statement where he stated that ‘he was previously arrested by the police on two occasions for trading in the illicit substances’, sentenced him to seven months imprisonment on each of the counts.

The judge, however, held that the jail term should run concurrently. She also ordered final forfeiture of the unregistered high grade motorcycle to the Federal Government.