Two dealers in Indian hemp , Omotosho Odeyemi, 23 and Kamo Alani, 50, were on Monday sentenced to six months imprisonment each for possessing 600 grammes of the weeds.
The convicts, in separate arraignment, had pleaded guilty to the one-count charge levelled against each of them.
Justice Babatunde Kwewumi of the Federal High Court in Osogbo sentenced each of the accused without an option of fine.
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