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SAMUEL AYO OMOJU V. THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

(2008) JELR 47279 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  SC.167/2007  •  15 Feb 2008  •  Nigeria

Coram
NIKI TOBI JSC; SUNDAY AKINOLA AKINTAN JSC; WALTER SAMUEL NKANU ONNOGHEN JSC; IBRAHIM TANKO MUHAMMAD JSC; CHRISTOPHER MITCHELL CHUKWUMA-ENEH JSC;

Judgement

NIKI TOBI, J.S.C: (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The facts of this case are bizarre, uncouth, life threatening and outrageous, in the sense that it is widely and wildly unexpected and unusual. They show to what extent human beings go for money and the way humanity adores or worships money. To such human beings, it is either money or nothing and they can die for money. Fortunately, a two-year jail term is not anything near death. It is a case of a human being, not just a human being; a Pastor, a man of God, so to say, swallowing 118 wraps or pieces of heroine and excreting same in a toilet at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, in his forced defecation between 4.05 am and 5.27 pm on 9th March. 2003. That human being and Pastor is the appellant.

The story is most sickening and horrifying. Although I dread it, I will tell it in the way the appellant told it in his statement to the officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. Appellant got his international passp…

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