A 40-year-old woman, Clara Onah, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment over sale of fake drugs.

 The accused, a graduate of Microbiology from the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) and a postgraduate student of Mass Communication, is resident at 12, Mosalashi Street, Alagbado Lagos.

 She was arraigned by the National Agency for Food, Drugs, Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on February 12, on a five count charge bordering on possession and sale of fake drugs and had pleaded guilty to the charge.

 When Clara was apprehended by officials of the agency, she took a team of investigating officers from NAFDAC, on a fruitless journey in search of an alleged manufacturing company when in actual fact she was the sole manufacturer of the fake drugs.

During her mercy plea, the convict had shed tears and begged the court to afford her a second chance explaining that she was a graduate of microbiology, who emerged with a second class upper division, adding that she would never engage in such acts again if pardoned.

 Following her plea, the trial judge, Justice Chuka Obiozor had ordered her remand in prison custody, and had adjourned for a review of facts.

 Delivering his judgment on Wednesday, Justice Obiozor, found the accused guilty of the offence, and accordingly convicted her.

 “I would have given the accused a second chance but note that all those who died as a result of the ingestion of the fake drug, had no second chance.

 “The convict is to be jailed at the women wing of the Kirikiri Maximum prison, and the term of imprisonment shall run concurrently from January 26. The prosecution shall hold on to the exhibits, and destroy same after the expiration of the time for appeal,” he held.