Two businessmen, Emmanuel Chukwuemeka and Kingsley Amanambu, have been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Lagos, for the unlawful importation of 8,200 kilograms of cough syrup containing codeine.

Justice Akintayo Aluko who sentenced them on Tuesday also ordered that they should forfeit a White Toyota Tacoma V6 with registration number, EKY 883 GK, used in transporting the prohibited drug, to the Federal Government of Nigeria, for being a proceed of crime.

The convicts were sentenced after they pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy, unlawful importation and dealings with the banned drug, preferred against them by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.

The NDLEA prosecution counsel, Juliana Negedu, told the court that the convicts were arrested with the banned cough syrup, on June 10, 2024, at the Comfort Oboh Estate, Kirikiri, Apapa, Lagos.