PHOTO: NIGN JAILED FOR LIFE!

A 33-year-old Nigerian, Uzoma Elele Alpha, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for possession of methamphetamine and marijuana worth an estimatd Rp 6 billion ($451,400). The verdict was handed down at The Depok District Court on Monday July 6.

Alpha was arrested at his apartment at the Margonda Residence tower in Depok last December during a raid by authorities from the immigration office. He failed to present valid papers for being in the country, prompting his arrest and subsequent drug testing, which came up positive for marijuana use. Police then searched his apartment where they found seven kilograms of meth and 300 grams of marijuana.

Uzoma escaped the death penalty sought by his prosecutors by getting a life imprisonment which the prosecutors has vowed to appeal.