Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), 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.
Its Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement issued Sunday 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.
He added that though the groom, Musa Gwandi who organised the drug party along with his friends was not at the venue at the time, the 25 others were arrested, and we subsequently nabbed on Sunday 3rd December following a manhunt for him.
Also, on Saturday 9th December 2023 intercepted at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, Enugu, 12 consignments of cocaine belonging to members of a Drug Trafficking Organisation.
A businessman, Augustine 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.
Babafemi added that during a preliminary interview, the suspect admitted the cocaine consignments were for delivery to 12 different persons in the country.
Be noted that NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Friday 8th December arrested a fleeing suspect, Onyejiuwa Ifeanyi, who has gone into hiding since 8th September following the seizure of a United Kingdom bound 20kg cannabis consignment concealed in tomato pastes tins at the SAHCO shed linked to him.
In the same vein, 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.