2 drug kingpins jailed for 10 years

Two notorious drug kingpins have been convicted and sentenced to a combined 10 years imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Lagos State.

The convicted drug kingpins are 37-year-old Ajetsibo Emami, popularly known as ‘Warri Kinsman’, and 51-year-old Solomon Akpomuai

Emami was arrested in the Ikeja area of Lagos State on June 28, 2025, after NDLEA operatives dismantled his drug trafficking network in a three-day operation leading to the arrest of three other suspects.

Recovered from Emami’s network were 24 jumbo bags containing 681 pouches of Canadian Loud, a strain of cannabis weighing 414.2 kilograms.

The NDLEA said the bust of Emami’s drug ring followed credible intelligence on his attempt to move the shipment to the Lekki area of Lagos, from where it will be distributed to other parts of the state and across the country.

He was subsequently arraigned before Justice Deinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court in Lagos for an offence bordering on dealing in illicit drugs.

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In a ruling delivered on Monday, August 18, Justice Dipeolu convicted Emami on the one-count charge filed against him and sentenced him to six years in prison with an option of N50 million fine.

In his case, Solomon Akpomuai was first arrested by men of the Nigeria Customs Service along the Shagamu-Ijebu-Ode expressway with 2,197.8 kilograms of skunk, a strain of cannabis, on June 3, 2025, and transferred to NDLEA.

He was later arraigned in charge number FHC/L/635C before Justice Dipeolu for trafficking illicit drugs in large commercial quantities.

Also delivering judgement on the matter, the judge convicted and sentenced Akpomuai to four years in prison with an option of N50 million fine.

The Star