Traditional Ruler Jailed 6 Months Over Fraud!

A traditional ruler in  obio/Akpor Local Government  Area of Rivers State,  Chief Tony Micah, 50, is to spend six months in prison after being convicted for stealing, forgery, obtaining by false pretence (419) and conspiracy.

While sentencing the monarch, who is also a Chief Executive Officer of a company in the state, a Port Harcourt Magistrate Court presided over by B. G. Macfailine, ordered the convicted traditional ruler to pay a fine of N5,000 in the alternative.

In his bid to escape being thrown behind bars for the period, the convict promptly issued a cheque for the sum through his counsel Mr. Bello, who had argued that his client should not be tried on multiple charges.

Upholding the argument, Magistrate Macfailine struck out five of the six charges and jailed the monarch on the sixth charge.

In another development the Rivers State Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Mr. Jude Ekure,  has said about 200,000 people die annually across the world from drug use.

Ekure, who spoke to newsmen in Port Harcourt, on drug use and illicit trafficking, disclosed that the number is out of the 210 million people, who indulge in illicit drug use across the world every year.

"Drug use and drug trafficking is not only a health threat but also threatens global stability and socio-economic development across the world," he said,  explaining that the command had seized 814, 744 killograme of cannabis, cocaine, heroin and amphetamines."