The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has revealed that its operatives intercepted 12 consignments of cocaine belonging to members of a drug trafficking organisation, at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, on Saturday, December 9.
The spokesperson for the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi revealed that the 12 cocaine consignments was recovered from a businessman, Augustine Emeka, aged 44, who claims he deals in copper wire.
Babafemi said, the businessman, Augustine Justine 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 Ethiopia airline with the 12 consignments consisting of seven hundred and ninety-seven (797) pellets of cocaine weighing 17.6 kilograms.
He said during preliminary interview, the suspect admitted that the cocaine consignments were for delivery to 12 different persons in the country,” he noted.
Babafemi added that in a related development, NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on Friday, December 8, arrested a fleeing suspect, Onyejiuwa Ifeanyi, who had 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.
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
In Kogi state, a 20-year-old Adamu Nuhu was arrested on Monday, December 3 along Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway while coming from Onitsha, Anambra enroute Kaduna with 2,700 ampoules of pentazocine injection; 11,900 pills of tramadol 225mg and 100mg as well as 124,000 tablets of diazepam.
In Borno state, NDLEA operatives recovered a total of 81,975 pills of tramadol from three suspects: Mohammed Abubakar, 25; and Hassan Mohammed, 25, both in Response Area, Bayo town while Suleman Hamidu, 27, was nabbed by soldiers on a follow up operation in Mubi town, Adamawa state.
