Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal
High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State, has sentenced two women, Helen Itemba
and Aladini Money, to three years imprisonment for illegal dealings in
petroleum products.
The convicts, who were prosecuted by
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, were found guilty on the two
count charges preferred against them and convicted accordingly. The court sentenced
them to a three-year jail term on each count with an option of N300, 000 fine.
The convicts illegally conveyed 136
plastic drums of petroleum products in a truck at Egbidi, Isoko Local
Government Area of Delta State, in 2009 without a licence and thereby committed
an offence contrary to section 3(6) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act Cap. M17,
laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2007 and punishable under section 1(17)
of the same Act.
They were arrested in May, 2009 by
operatives of Delta State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence
Corps, NSCDC, along with the truck conveying 136 plastic drums of petroleum
products driven by one John Ufo and his co-travellers.
They were handed over to EFCC for
investigation and prosecution.
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