The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA)officers acting on intelligence disrupted a pre-wedding ceremony drug abuse competition in a community popularly known as Shola Quarters, Katsina State and arrested 25 youths participating in the drug party.
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 organised the drug party alongside 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.
Meanwhile, at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu, NDLEA Operatives have intercepted twelve (12) consignments of cocaine belonging to members of a Drug Trafficking Organisation.
A businessman, Augustine Justine Emeka, 44, who claimed 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.
According to the agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, during the 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 also arrested a fleeing suspect, Onyejiuwa Prince Ifeanyi, who has gone into hiding since 8th September 2023 following the seizure of a United Kingdom bound 20kg cannabis consignment concealed in tomato pastes tins at the SAHCO shed linked to him.
Also, operatives of the Seaports Operations of the Agency on Monday 4th December 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.
