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| Bobbo, Bappa |
A former member of the Adamawa State
House of Assembly, Missa Bobbo, and a notorious drug baron, Bappa Madu,
of Ngurore town have been sentenced to seven years imprisonment each by a
Federal High Court in Yola.
Bobbo was arrested by officials of the
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in.....
connection with unlawful
possession of narcotics in 2013 while Bappa, who has twenty-five
children, was arrested in June 2015.
According to a statement by NDLEA
spokesperson, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, Bobbo was convicted for possessing
81.9kg of cannabis sativa while Bappa was found guilty of possessing
61.6kg of tramadol.
Justice Balkisu Aliyu described the involvement of the former legislator in drug trafficking as shameful during his sentencing.
Bobbo was a member of the House of Assembly in Adamawa State representing Leko-Koma Constituency between 1991 and 1993.
He was also a member of the national
constitutional conference in 1995. Apart from the dried weeds of
cannabis found on him; fresh plants of cannabis were also harvested from
his cannabis farm.
Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA,
Ahmadu Giade, in his reaction, described the action of the former
lawmaker as distasteful adding that the conviction would serve as
deterrent to others.
Culled - Punch
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