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DRUG TRAFFICKING! Nigerian woman to spend six years in Rwanda prison for heroin

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A Nigerian woman will spend the next six years in a Rwandan prison after she was convicted for trafficking drugs into the East African nation.

Priscilla Duru had in 2016 tried to smuggle1.3 kilograms of heroin through Kigali en route to Nigeria. She was, however, nabbed at Kigali International Airport.

Last Thursday, the presiding judge of the specialised chamber for international crimes at the High Court in Rwanda, Alice Rulisa, sentenced her to six years in prison for drug trafficking.

During the hearings, she denied the charges arguing that she was given the bag by a Tanzanian woman and didn’t know the contents of the bag.

Reading the verdict, Judge Rulisa said that the court had established that Duru was well aware of the contraband and that she had waited for over a month in Rwanda before the bag containing the drugs was brought to her.

Judge Rulisa ruled that Duru will serve six years in Muhanga Prison, and pay two million Rwandan francs in fines.

Although at the time of her arrest, Duru claimed she didn’t know what she was carrying, when she appeared in court in January 2017, she admitted that she was carrying heroin and begged for mercy

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