King Sunny Ade's
ex-guitarist, Fatoke Abiodun, was sentenced to three years imprisonment at a
Federal High Court in Lagos for drug trafficking.
The 62 year old veteran guitarist was arrested on
Tuesday January 1st 2013 with 1.575kg of cocaine while trying to board an Air
France flight to Italy at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
The drug was discovered in the false bottom of his luggage during the screening
of passengers to Italy. Fakoke pled guilty to one count of unlawful exportation
of cocaine.
He played for King Sunny Ade for 30 years before he
was unceremoniously retired in 2007.
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