By: Audrey Raymonda John
The principal magistrate Mark Ngegba on the Padempa Road Court No.1 in Freetown has on Tuesday 15th November 2022 sentences kush sellers Mohamed Osman Kamara, Yeanoh Kargbo, to sever a jail term of one years each and pay a fine of two thousand new Leones to the state the second accused Ibrahim Bangura should sever a jail terms of two years in each count and pay a fine of one thousand five hundred news Leones on each counts to the state.
All accused were standing before the court on four counts of Unlawful possession of kush contrary to section 48 (1) of the pharmacy and drugs Act 2001.
According to particular of offence police stated the first accused person Mohamed Osman Kamara, on Saturday the 29th day of October, 2022, at kissy, Freetown was found in possession of two thousand four hundred and eleven wraps of kush weighing (230) grams without lawful authority.
Police also alleged on the same date at shell kissy, back of Janneh filling station, Freetown the second accused person Yeanoh Kargbo was found in possession of one thousand five hundred wraps of kush weighing 144 grams without lawful authority.
The third accused person Ibrahim Bangura was also found in possession of three hundred and thirty four wraps of kush weighing 100 grams without lawful authority he was also found in possession of sixty pieces of black solid drug (ASH) cannabis sativa placed in a transparent dispensary bag weighing 8 grams without lawful authority.
After the charges were read and explained to them they pleaded guilty to the offense and asked for mercy.
Magistrate Mark Ngegba, therefore sentences the first and second accused persons to serve one years each and they should also pay a fine of two million each to the state and the third accused to serve a jail term of two years and pay a fine of two thousand new Leones to the state magistrate Ngegba said jail terms to run concurrently.