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Nigerian national Alabi Tunde was sentenced to eight years in prison after he was found guilty of trafficking cocaine worth nearly Ksh890,800.

A court in Nairobi has sentenced Nigerian national Alabi Tunde Lateef to eight years in prison after he was found guilty of trafficking cocaine worth nearly Ksh890,800.

In a statement issued by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) on Saturday, August 16, the Milimani Law Courts ruled that the prosecution had presented sufficient evidence to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.

The court was told that on September 11, 2017, Lateef was arrested in two separate locations with narcotic drugs.

At the General Post Office (GPO) area in Nairobi’s Central Business District, he was found trafficking by moving 75.4 grammes of cocaine valued at Ksh377,000.

On the same day, in Mwiki, Kasarani, he was further found to be in possession of 102.7 grammes of cocaine with a street value of Ksh513,800.

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Chief Magistrate Susan Shitubi sentenced him to eight years for the two counts. The sentences will run concurrently, meaning he will serve eight years.

“Prosecution, led by Counsels Wanjiru Naomi and Nyakira Kibera, called four witnesses whose evidence was instrumental in securing the conviction,” the statement read.

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The conviction comes in the same week the ODPP secured another major court win. In Baringo County, Peter Natesero Lengusu was handed a life sentence after the Kabarnet Magistrate’s Court found him guilty of robbery with violence.

The offence took place on August 10, 2024, in Kampi Turkana village, Baringo South, where Lengusu and accomplices, still at large, robbed a victim of his mobile phone and violently assaulted him with crude weapons.

During the trial, evidence presented by five witnesses, including the victim, as well as medical reports, linked Lengusu to the crime.

The court also heard that he had been on the run for some time before being arrested by members of the public, who handed him over to the police.

In delivering judgment, Ateya highlighted Lengusu’s threats against the victim and others involved in his arrest, noting his warning that they should 'start digging their graves before he arrives from prison.'

The magistrate described the threats as a sign of continued danger, leading to the imposition of the maximum sentence of life imprisonment.