An Indonesian court yesterday sentenced a Nigerian identified as Arinze Eneh to 20 years in jail for facilitating narcotic drug distribution in Jakarta. The court also fined Arinze Rp1.2 billion. “Arinze was proven to have conspired to commit an evil act by becoming a facilitator in the distribution of Category I narcotic drug,” Chief Judge of the West Jakarta District Court, Bambang Mursito, said while reading out the verdict.
The prosecutor had asked for a death sentence. Eneh, who spoke through his lawyer, said he was satisfied with the judges’ decision but said he, too, had to decide whether to appeal or not. “In principle, we are satisfied with the verdict.
However, we would think and consider about appealing it,” the lawyer, Dolfie Rompas, said. Eneh alias Zona, along with Tuti Sudartika alias Dede Rosa and Rojali Saputra (the two were tried under different dossiers), were involved in a case of illegal possession of 6.3 kilograms of methamphetamine.
Eneh, who is currently being held at Salemba Penitentiary in Central Jakarta in a narcotic case still under judicial process, was ordered by a man named John (still at large) to pick up narcotic drug from China and take it to Indonesia.
He then asked Tuti and Rojali, (earlier informed by David, at large) to carry out the job.The drug, weighing 6.3 kilograms, was smuggled in a thermos flask through a Covenant Logistic expedition in Cengkareng, West Jakarta, and then kept in a kiosk in Cibinong, Bogor, West Java.
The state prosecutor has charged all the suspects with violation of Law Number 35 of 2009 on narcotics because they attempted to commit an evil act of smuggling a narcotic substance by becoming facilitators in the distribution of drugs and therefore deserved a death penalty.
