High Court Judge, Honourable Justice Mark Ngegba, has sentenced two Liberian Citizens to thirty-five (35) years’ imprisonment for trading and transporting of two thousand one hundred and thirty (2,130) tablets of tramadol.
The convicts, Annet Maflah and Lovetta Maflah, are sisters and Liberian citizens resident in Zorzor, Monrovia, Republic of Liberia.
The two convicts were indicted on four counts, including unlawful possession of a prohibited drug, dealing in a prohibited drug, and transporting a prohibited drug, contrary to sections 8(a), 7(c), and 7(b) of the National Drugs Control Act, 2008 (Act No. 10 of 2008).
According to the particulars of offence, the convicts, Annet Maflah and Lovetta Maflah, were on 16 November 2025, at Koidu Town in Kono District, Eastern Province of the Republic of Sierra Leone, found in possession of 2,130 tablets of tramadol, weighing 20.4 kilograms, without lawful authority.
In their allocutus, both convicts pleaded with the Court for mercy.
In his sentencing remarks, Honourable Justice Mark Ngegba stated that he had carefully considered the allocutus of the convicts and acknowledged that they did not waste the Court’s time. However, he emphasized the seriousness of the offences and their grave implications for society, particularly the destructive impact of illicit drugs on young people.
Justice Ngegba accordingly found both convicts guilty on all the four counts and sentenced the first convict, Annet Maflah, and the second convict, Lovetta Maflah, to thirty-five (35) years’ imprisonment each.
