The NDLEA said investigations revealed that Chinedu had travelled from Turkey and transited through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he collected the consignment from another person before proceeding to Nigeria.
A former international footballer, Hunkarin Segun George, has been convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment for conspiring to unlawfully import cocaine into Nigeria, while a fugitive drug kingpin, Ntoruka Emmanuel Chinedu, received a 22-year jail term after being found guilty of multiple cocaine importation offences.
Justice Musa Kakaki of the Federal High Court in Lagos delivered the judgment on Friday, July 24, 2026, sentencing the two convicts to a combined total of 24 years imprisonment over the unlawful importation of 7.050 kilograms of cocaine.
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