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Debate 🇳🇬 Nigeria

A bill seeks to stop Nigerian judges varying drug sentences

A National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (Amendment) Bill was introduced to amend the 1989 law. It aimed to close loopholes by wording the provisions so clearly that judges could not vary the sentences the Act lays down, among other changes.[1]

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References

  1. International Drug Policy Consortium and West Africa Commission on Drugs (Maria-Goretti Ane, Jamie Bridge) — Drug laws in West Africa, annex of country profiles, November 2017 (PDF)archived

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