A former CIÉ bus driver described as an international drugs trafficker has been jailed for 13 years after he solicited undercover gardaí to act as drug mules. Sunny Idah (36) was caught after an international operation involving Swiss and Irish undercover police.
He was secretly recorded offering two undercover gardaí money to swallow a kilo each of cocaine pellets and bring them back to Ireland from Rio de Janeiro. He used the name Teamor while soliciting the gardaí to travel to Rio where, for €5,000 each, they would swallow the drugs and travel back to Ireland.
Idah, a Nigerian father of three with addresses at Lipton Court, Dublin, and Brown Street, London, had pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two charges of soliciting another person to import cocaine between September 14th and 19th, 2010.
Judge Desmond Hogan said Idah was recruiting people to bring drugs here and was a far more serious criminal than an “ordinary drug mule”. His crimes were “extremely serious” and continued the “absolute misery that has been visited upon this city and the country by virtue of drugs”.