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Eleven Indian sailors and their merchant vessel, MV Aruna Hulya, have been found guilty of importing 31.5 kilogrammes of cocaine into Nigeria through the Apapa Seaport in Lagos by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.
The conviction came barely six months after operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested the crew members and impounded the vessel after the discovery of the illicit drug on board, it was reported.
The sailors and the vessel were also fined and ordered to make restitution of $6m to the Federal Government.
On January 2, 2026, NDLEA operatives found 31.5kg of cocaine in hatch 3 of the merchant vessel at the GDNL Terminal, Apapa Port, Lagos.
The vessel named MV Aruna Hulya was said to have brought in the consignment from the Marshall Islands into Nigeria.
The agency held the vessel and its Indian crew members after the seizure.
Those taken into custody were Master of the vessel Sharma Shashi Bhushan and 10 crew members identified as Bharati Manoj Kumar, Nevage Sandesh Suresh, Pandey Prashant, Nuttu Anand, Akash Babu, Nilesh Mukuno Bhalerad, Melethil Insaf Rahman, Barla Chantanya Krishna, Prabhasukhan Singu and Jai Parkash.
They were later arraigned on a two-count charge before Justice Joseph Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Lagos in suit number FHC/L/56C/2026.
After months of proceedings, the trial judge delivered his ruling on the plea bargain terms filed by the prosecution and the defence on Thursday, June 11, 2026.
The court found all the 12 defendants guilty under Section 25 of the NDLEA Act and sentenced each of them to pay the sum of ₦100,000, the prescribed penalty for the offence under the law.
The court also ordered the first defendant, the vessel, to pay restitution to the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the sum of $5.3 million or its equivalent in Naira, in addition to the fines.
The three key officers of the vessel, who were named as the second, third and fourth defendants, were also ordered to pay $100,000 each as restitution to the Federal Government.
They are Shashi Bhushan Sharma, Mukuno Bhalerad Nilesh and Rahman Melethil Insaf.
The rest of the crew members, in the fifth to 12th defendants’ list, were each ordered to pay $50,000 as restitution.
Reacting to the judgement, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd.), said the conviction sent a big warning to international drug trafficking syndicates.
Marwa in a statement issued Thursday by the Director of Media and Advocacy at the NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, said the judgement was a reflection of Nigeria’s intolerance for the use of its ports or waters for narcotics trafficking.
The conviction of the vessel and its crew members sent “a resounding message to every drug trafficking network in the world that Nigeria is no longer a safe corridor for cocaine or any other illicit substance,” he said.
He said the case was another indication of the agency’s growing success in tracking and prosecuting drug traffickers at the country’s entry points.
“This is the third such judgment in recent times, the convictions of foreign nationals and vessels on similar charges. “These are not coincidences, they are the direct result of deliberate, intelligence-led operations by our officers who remain vigilant at every port of entry,” said Marwa.
He warned that the agency would continue to go after drug traffickers, regardless of their nationality or the route by which illicit substances were moved into the country.
“The NDLEA will not relent,” he said. “Whether you come by air, land or sea; whether you are a Nigerian or a foreign national, if you try to use our waters as a narcotics highway, you will face the full force of Nigerian law. Our courts have spoken, and we will give them reason to speak again.” “We are winning the war against drug trafficking and that is how we want to keep it.”
Marwa lauded the officers of the Apapa Strategic Command of the agency for their alertness in discovering the cocaine consignment, which he said was hidden deep in the cargo of a large commodity vessel.
He also praised the Directorate of Prosecution and Legal Services of the agency for their diligence in dealing with the case and securing the conviction.
The NDLEA chairman said the agency would continue to intensify intelligence-led operations at seaports, airports and land borders to prevent Nigeria from becoming a route for illicit drug trafficking.
