The Secunda District Court in Mpumalanga, South Africa on Wednesday, 5 April 2017, handed hefty sentences to six Nigerian nationals, who were found guilty of manufacturing and dealing in drugs.

Chibuzor Paul Ezekware, Samuel Okafor and Goodwin Addo Abunne were each sentenced to 36 years imprisonment. Henry Ulangu Ukaegby and Innocent Akuziele will spend 16 years in jail each, while Junior Okafor was sentenced to 18 months behind bars.

Ezekware, Okafor and Abunne were also ordered to pay R11 500, R4 800 and R7 000 back to the state respectively. Ukaegby and Akuziele will pay R2 600 and R1 800 back to the state respectively.
The seventh suspect’s case will be heard in the Evander Regional Court on 10 May 2017.


The National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, Lieutenant General Mthandazo Ntlemeza, has welcomed the sentence, saying the Hawks do not aim to arrest suspect only, but to secure convictions and ensure that justice is served.

“We are clamping down on drugs and all other serious crimes and criminals must be warned that we will send them to jail for a very long time,” said Lieutenant General Ntlemeza.

The suspects were arrested by the Hawks in Secunda and Crime Intelligence on 18 August 2016. (See photos of two of them on the day of arrest).
"The crackdown (called Project 24) on the syndicate came today after 14 months of investigation and gathering of information using unconventional methods,” said Capt Lucy Sekgotodi, provincial spokesperson for the Hawks on the day of arrest.
The Hawks began moving in on the dealers at 04:00 that morning and arrested the seven men at various houses in Secunda and Trichardt.

They also confiscated five vehicles used in drug transactions.

Culled from lindaikejisblog.com

#saynotodrugs

So sad.

There is a serious problem in the Eastern part of Nigeria,and it is so sad the way we Nigerians have trivialized it.

We make light of it here,with statements like NA THEM,Igbo's and other petty Acronyms.

But the truth is,these issues have to be addressed by the Easterners,and how they go about it is something they will need to workout among themselves.

I don't know if it is the Eastern Radio and Television stations that will help us,or maybe at their monthly town hall meetings,or maybe by words of the mouth among themselves,that it is time they stop bringing shame and disgrace not just to their tribe/region,but also our Country.

The Sad thing is that their Kinsmen/Elders See nothing wrong with a life of crime. I mean,how can there be a particular part of a Country always associated with the same crime every time?

The Sad thing is that outside Nigeria,the law enforcement/immigration/Citizenry of other Countries don't know the difference in tribes between us,and we all suffer the stigma and harassment of being called Drug Dealers.

It is time like this,I wish they could get their Biafra. So that they can be well differentiated from the rest of us when they get caught.

This is shameful,and Shame to any Easterner that comes to this thread to support this shame.

Walks out of thread in anger.

NCAN fin. sec reporting live from Lagos

Ipob yoots una nor dey tire?


Okay.... I understand you people want to develop S.A right?


Whey your ugwu hawking governor can't even do anything about your erosion savaged land. I even heard their ladies are using cucumber to replace their men in the department below. Because their men has erectile dysfunction as a result of drinking to much ogogpro.



Shame on yeasterners! Flatrons are nothing but shame to the country and Africa as a whole!

Hmmmm. Nigerians and the drug trade. SA relaxed drug laws and the demand for drugs keep encouraging more nigerians into the drug business.

CarolineOlawale:
Ipob yoots una nor dey tire?


Okay.... I understand you people want to develop S.A right?


Whey your ugwu hawking governor can't even do anything about your erosion savaged land. I even heard their ladies are using cucumber to replace their men in the department below. Because their men has erectile dysfunction as a result of drinking to much ogogpro.



Shame on yeasterners! Flatrons are nothing but shame to the country and Africa as a whole!

since you can't spell easterner correctly.

since you can't spell ogogoro correctly.


Your comment has no meaning, and i just give up on you.

Go learn how to write and spell.

By their names we will know their activities.

Kwenu people.

Ah dinor menshun tribe o

Apple1992:


since you can't spell easterner correctly.

since you can't spell ogogoro correctly.


Your comment has no meaning, and i just give up on you.

Go learn how to write and spell.

Pained ipob yoot on d loose

kenshiiii com see ur people for here too oooo.

Other African countries are also facing stigmatization because of the crimes committed by our flaat head brothers.

Most of them even see it as hussle

omofunaab:
kenshiiii com see ur people for here too oooo.

I hate catching all these threads late

Hopefully, dem go move the other one

All these ftc preachers put me to sleep.

E ko si danu make we do wetin we sabi do jare