Rwandan High Court sentened a Nigerian woman to six years in prison for drug trafficking.
The accused was identified as Pricilia Duru. She was arrested at kigali international airport in October 2016 as she was caught trying to smuggle 1.3 kilograms of heroin to Nigeria.
While she was in court during the hearing, she claimed that she wasn't the owner of the bag and that the bag was given to her by a Tanzanian woman who was ignorant of the contents in the bag.
Alice Rulisa who was the presiding judge in the court said that the court had established that Duru entered Rwanda because she had planned that another person will give her the drugs from Tanzania so that she can then transport it to Nigeria.
The Rwandan High Court ruled that the suspect was well aware of the contents in the bag and that she waited for over a month in Rwanda before the bag was brought to her.
The suspect who couldn't hold back her tears during the reading of the verdict, begged for compassion saying that she wasn't aware of the contents in the bag, that if she knew she would have alerted the police at once. She also claimed that she came to Kigali after she was asked by her family friend who is a Doctor in Nigeria to carry for him a bag with a certain medicine called Ephedrine.
She also claimed that she ask him for help because she needed to take care for her children after the death of her husband.
The court ruled that she will pay two million Rwandan francs in fines and she will have to serve six years in Muhanga Prison.
Mr Jovial 16:26
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posted by mrjovial @ February 19, 2018
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