The Greater Accra Regional Tribunal on Monday sentenced two Nigerians for various drugs offences. Mondistus Nidimakor was jailed for attempting to export cocaine, while Gabriel Alaoma was jailed for attempting to import heroine. Nidimakor was sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment in hard labour for attempting to export 73 pellets of cocaine without lawful authority and possessing narcotic drugs without lawful authority. Mondistus Nidimakor pleaded guilty and the court convicted him accordingly. The Tribunal ordered the destruction of the drugs weighing 959.46 grammes. The case as presented by Mrs. Yvonne Attakorah Obuobisa, Principal State Attorney, is that on January 16, 2006 Nidimakor arrived at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) to board a KLM flight to Amsterdam. The prosecution said while he was going through departure formalities, he was arrested on suspicion that he was carrying drugs. Nidimakor was therefore escorted to the 37 Military Hospital and an ex-ray conducted on him indicated that he had some foreign materials in his stomach. He was subsequently put under careful observation and he expelled 73 pellets of materials suspected to be a narcotic drug. The prosecution said the pellets were sent to the Ghana Standards Board (GSB) for analytical examination and a report received indicated the pellets expelled by Nidimakor were cocaine which weighed 949.46 grammes. The tribunal also sentenced Gabriel Alaoma to 10 years’ imprisonment in hard labour for importing and possessing heroine weighing 4475.388 grammes without lawful authority. Alaoma who earlier on pleaded not guilty after being on remand for four years changed his plea to guilty. The tribunal therefore ordered that his sentence should commence from the day of his arrest. The prosecution has it that on March 12, 2004, Alaoma arrived at KIA from Karachi, Pakistan and was en route to Cote d’Ivoire. The prosecutor said his movement at the transit lounge aroused suspicion of officers of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB). NACOB officials therefore picked him up for a search and when his briefcase was searched thoroughly, they found four large parcels of powdery substances concealed in a false compartment. The parcels were duly examined by the forensic department of GSB and their report indicated that the drugs were heroine. Source: GNA