Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested an Algeria-bound drug trafficker, Aloysius Ajuruchukwu Onyekwe, who ingested 47 wraps of cocaine in Ibadan.
Onyekwe was said to have made plans to travel to Algeria by road via Sokoto from taking off from Lagos.
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But his journey was terminated at Ibadan, Oyo State capital following his arrest by NDLEA operatives.In a statement issued on Sunday by Femi Babafemi, spokesman of the agency, the arrest was possible with intelligence shared by the Department of State Services (DSS).
“Onyekwe, 26, who hails from Owerri West Local Government Area (LGA), Imo state was arrested on Sunday July 3, 2022 at Ojo park Ibadan where he went to board a vehicle enroute Sokoto to Algeria,” Babafemi stated.
“He was traveling with an 18-year-old lady, Blessing Nwoke. The father of a 10-month-old child who passed out the 47 pellets of cocaine in five excretions confessed that he began his journey to Algeria from Cele area of Okota, Lagos where he ingested the illicit drug, weighing 1.1kg.”
“Also in Oyo state, no fewer than 1,900 tablets of Tramadol about 225mg were seized from a drug dealer, Mustapha Ijabula, 22, who was arrested in a Yola, Adamawa-bound commercial vehicle stopped for routine search along Lagos-Ibadan expressway. He hails from Mubi area of Adamawa state.
“In Akwa Ibom state, a trans-border trafficker, Fonkou Dassi, 31, was on Friday 8th July arrested with 6,000 tablets of Tramadol 225mg weighing 3kg by officers of Marine Unit of the Agency when a commercial boat he boarded was intercepted and searched on his way to Cameroon.
“The suspect concealed the recovered drugs inside indomie noodles cartoon.”
In another seizure, “a wanted drug dealer, Uduak Edidiong Samuel, 29, was arrested on Tuesday 5th July, after attending a court proceeding where his wife was undergoing trial for another drug case.”
“The suspect had abandoned a cannabis sativa exhibit weighing 9kg when his house was searched on 27th June and has been on the run since then.”During his arrest on Tuesday, Uduak was still found in possession of a wrap of skunk.
“In Edo state, a notorious drug dealer Beauty Dauda, 27, has been arrested with various quantities of Meth, heroin, cannabis and crack cocaine in a densely populated slum along Lagos bypass, Benin City.She was arrested on Wednesday 6th July after NDLEA operatives were able to break through the ring of protection often provided her by hoodlums and touts in the area,” Babafemi added.
Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brigadier-General Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has commended the officers and men of the MMIA, Oyo, Akwa Ibom and Edo commands of the agency for staying vigilant and proactive in their areas of responsibility.
He charged them and their colleagues across the country not to rest on their oars.
