TOBI JSC (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The facts of this case are bizarre, uncouth, life threateningand outrageous, in the sense that it is widely andwildly unexpected and unusual. They show to what extent human beings go for money and the way humanity adores or worships money. To such human beings, it is either money or nothingand they can die for money. Fortunately, a two-year jail term is not anything near death. It is a case of a human being, not just a human being; a Pastor, a man of God, so to say, swallowing 118 wraps or pieces of heroin and excreting same in a toilet at the NnamdiAzikiwe InternationalAirport, Abuja, in his forced defecation between 4.05am and 5.27pm on 9th March, 2003. That human being and Pastor is the appellant.
The story is most sickening and horrifying. Although I dread it, I will tell it in the way the appellant told it in his statement to the officers of the NationalDrugLaw Enforcement Agency.Appellant got his international passport in 2001 and starte…