BY PROBLYN J ALPHA
The Sefadu Magistrate Court at D.O. Barracks in Koidu City, Kono District, presided over by Magistrate Joseph Toby, has sentenced a twenty-two-year-old pupil, Sia Lebbie, to fifty-five months’ imprisonment on two counts: unlawful possession contrary to section 48 (1) of the Pharmacy and Drugs Act 2001, and trafficking contrary to Rule 1119 (1) and (5) of the Prison Rule Number Two of 1961. The convict is to serve her jail term consecutively at the Sefadu Female Correctional Centre, D.O. Barracks in Koidu City, while the exhibits must be publicly destroyed.
The particulars of the offence state that on Thursday, 8th February 2024, at the Tankoro Police Station in Koidu City, Tankoro Chiefdom in the Eastern Province of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Sia Lebbie brought food for her boyfriend who was in police custody for alleged burglary.
She brought at least twenty parcels of cannabis sativa, two parcels of kush, one packet of tramadol tablets, one packet of gold seal cigarettes, and two Dorco razor blades without lawful authority. The particulars of the offence further noted that the convict placed the highlighted drugs in a plastic bag and hid them under the food (cooked rice) she took to the police cells for her boyfriend. During the process of handing over the food to the suspect in police cells, the aforementioned drugs were discovered.
The twenty-two-year-old pupil was investigated and charged to the Sefadu Magistrate Court. Upon her second appearance at the said court, she was sentenced on one count for unlawful possession contrary to section 48 (1) of the Pharmacy and Drugs Act 2001 for thirty months’ imprisonment, and on count two, trafficking contrary to Rule 1119 (1) & (5) of the Prison Rule Number Two of 1961 for twenty-five months’ imprisonment, to be served consecutively.
In the same court, on Thursday, 8th February 2024, Magistrate Joseph Toby sentenced Ibrahim Fofanah to twelve months’ imprisonment for fraudulent conversion contrary to section 20 (1) (iv) a of the Larceny Act 1916. The matter was prosecuted by 13589 Kamara M.
