Azim Aghajani, a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been found guilty of smuggling weapons into Lagos and sentenced to five years in prison by a Federal High Court in the city.
A Nigerian, Ali Jega was also convicted alongside Azim Aghajani.
The Nigerian Customs Service in 2010 made a seizure of 13 containers loaded with rockets and grenades, shipped in from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The shipment including rockets and other explosives were hidden in containers of building materials.
Court documents revealed that the arms were to be re-exported to The Gambia.
The Judge who presided over the two-year trial, Justice Okechukwu Okeke, found the Iranian guilty and sentenced him to prison for five years.
The men were said to have, without licence, been “in control of bombs and grenade categorised as prohibited firearms under Item 4 of Part 1 of the Schedule to the Firearms Act, Cap F28, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and contrary to Section 3 of the Constitution.”
They were also said to have been in control of rockets categorised as prohibited firearms without licence.
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ReplyDeletei strongly believe the judge is conpromised too, 5 years is too small considering security challenges in the country. That useless nigerian accomplice shaoulde have gotten life in prison with no possibility of pardon. i know the bastard very well, he duped us sometime ago in 2004 in Abuja. Am happy his ways have caught up with him. criminal man jega is. every nigerian must be vigilant n watchful to help law enforcers apprehend people like this.
ReplyDeleteLarry write in from CHINA
ReplyDeleteHmmmm 5 years for importation of container load of FIREARMS into a country ..........what a judicial system my people operate, you dont need to have a poly bag of ammunition not to talk of firearms in ASIA or the ARAB world before you are HANGED. i pity my county
Is it 5 yrs or 17 yrs as reported in other papers?. Pls cross check this.
ReplyDeleteAs far as my opinion is concerned death to any illegal weapon trotter even if its a single pistol.
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