Lagos court discharges Pretty Mike, supervisor in NDLEA drug case

A Federal High Court sitting successful Lagos has discharged socialite and nightclub owner, Mike Nwalie, popularly known arsenic Pretty Mike, alongside his nine supervisor, Joachim Hillary, aft upholding their no-case submission successful a drug-related suit instituted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.

Delivering judgement connected Wednesday, Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa ruled that the prosecution failed to contiguous capable grounds to found a prima facie lawsuit against the defendants.

“The grounds placed earlier the tribunal does not disclose a prima facie lawsuit requiring the defendants to participate their defence,” the justice held, noting further that the worldly presented by the prosecution, “at its highest, raises specified suspicion, which cannot crushed a transgression conviction.”

Pretty Mike, who owns the Proxy Lagos nightclub located successful Victoria Island, and Hillary had earlier been arraigned connected a three-count complaint bordering connected conspiracy, unlawful possession of prohibited substances, and allegedly permitting the usage of the premises for illicit cause activities.

The NDLEA had informed the tribunal that its operatives conducted a raid connected the nightclub connected October 26, during which they allegedly recovered 169 cylinders of nitrous oxide, commonly referred to arsenic laughing gas, weighing 384.662 kilograms, arsenic good arsenic 200 ...