National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Saturday, December 9, intercepted at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA) Enugu, 12 consignments of cocaine belonging to members of a drug trafficking organisation, while arresting a suspect, Augustine Justine Emeka.
LEADERSHIP reports that the agency also disrupted a pre-wedding (Bachelor’s Eve) drug taking competition in Katsina.
The businessman, Emeka, 44, who claims he deals in copper wire was arrested at the airport upon his arrival from Douala, Cameroon via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Ethiopian Airline with the 12 consignments consisting of 797 pellets of cocaine weighing 17.6 kilograms.
The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said during a preliminary interview, the suspect admitted the cocaine consignments were for delivery to 12 different persons in the country.
In a related development, NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos on Friday, December 8, arrested a fleeing suspect, Onyejiuwa Prince Ifeanyi, who has gone into hiding since September 8 following the seizure of a United Kingdom bound 20kg cannabis consignment concealed in tomato pastes tins at the SAHCO shed linked to him.
Also, NDLEA operatives of the seaports operations, on Monday December 4, arrested a 45-year-old Beninoise, Jamila Fatiu at Ebute Ero Jetty in Lagos Island with 398 bottles of codeine cough syrup on her way to Seme border via a boat service.
In Katsina State, NDLEA officers acting on intelligence disrupted a pre-wedding ceremony drug abuse competition in a community popularly known as Shola Quarters, Katsina and arrested 25 youths participating in the drug party.
Babafemi said operatives swooped on the suspects while they were busy taking turns abusing all sorts of illicit substances including a mixture of multiple drugs mixed in a plastic bucket.
Though the groom, Musa Gwandi who organized the drug party along with his friends was not at the venue at the time the 25 others were arrested, he was however nabbed on Sunday 3rd December following a manhunt for him.
