Federal High Court in Lagos

  Akin Kuponiyi 

A Federal high court sitting in Lagos has sentenced, a Nigerian-born British citizen, OYEDIPE ANDREW ADEJUWON and his British Citizen collaborator, MHIZHA JORDAN ALEXANDER TATENDRA, to a total of eight years imprisonment for the importation of Cannabis Sativa into Nigeria.

MHIZHA Jordan Alexander TATENDRA was charged with conspiring with other persons unknown to import 51.10 kilogrammes of Cannabis Sativa, OYEDIPE ANDREW ADEJUWON, also a British Citizen, to procure MHIZHA, JORDAN. ALEXANDER TATENDRA, a British Citizen, to import 51.10 kilograms of Cannabis Sativa from the United Arab Emirates

When the amended charge was read to them, the two of them pleaded guilty; thereafter, the facts of the case were reviewed by the NDLEA prosecutor.

Consequently, the presiding Judge, Justice Musa Kakaki, after convicting the defendants, sentenced them to two years imprisonment each on each count of the two counts, the terms of imprisonment are to run concurrently

from the day of. Their arrest 14th of May,2025

The two-count charge number FHC/L/421/2025, as filed before the court by the NDLEA prosecutor Abu Ibrahim, states below.

Count 1

That you Mhizha Jordan Alexander Tatendra and Oyedipe Andrew Adejuwon, both Male, Adults, British Citizens on or about the 14th May 2025 conspired with some other persons unknown to Import 51.10Kilograms of Cannabis Sativa, a Narcotic Drug similar to Cocaine, LSD, Heroin and you thereby committed an act which is an offence contrary to and punishable under section 14 (b) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act Cap. N30, Laws of the Federation of

Nigeria, 2004.

Count 2

That you Oyedipe Andrew Adejuwon Male, Adult British Citizen, on or about the 14th May 2025 procured one Mhizha Jordan Alexander Tatendra Male, Adult, British Citizen to Import 51.10Kilograms of Cannabis Sativa, a Narcotic Drug similar to Cocaine, LSD, Heroin and you thereby committed an act which is an offence contrary to section 21 (2) (d) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act Cap. N30, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under section

11(a) of the said Act.

Count 3 :

That you Mhizha Jordan Alexander Tatendra Male, Adult British Citizen, on or about the 14th May 2025 during the inward clearance of passengers aboard Emirates Airlines flight from United Arab Emirates to Lagos at the E-Arrival Hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Ikeja-Lagos without lawful authority imported 51.10Kilograms of Cannabis Sativa, a Narcotic Drug similar to Cocaine, LSD, Heroin and you thereby committed an act which is an offence contrary to and punishable under section 11 (a) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act Cap. N30, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.