NDLEA Arrests 25 Boys, 35 Girls At Abuja Drug Party, Intercepts 6,125 Cartons of Codeine Worth N7.3bn
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Friday night, arrested 25 males and 35 females during a drug party tagged, ‘Go hard or Go Home. Pick Your Poison’.
They were arrested at an apartment in Sun City estate in the Federal Capital Territory where the orgy of the drug party was well underway.
The raid followed credible intelligence about the drug party organised by one Stanley Ikechukwu, also arrested at the venue, according to a statement on Sunday by the NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi.
He said, “At least six of the suspects: Victoria Adoga; Hamza Yari; Joanne Essein Joy; Socchima Valentine; Jago Imole; and Charles Indobuibisi, were arrested with different quantities of ecstasy and cannabis.
“The Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) has directed that 20 of the suspects who tested negative for drugs be released unconditionally, while 33 others who tested positive for illicit drugs were to be released on bail and will report at the FCT Command of the Agency on Monday to begin treatment and counselling,” the agency said.
In another development, the agency intercepted 6,125 cartons of codeine syrup containing N1.50m bottles of the opioid worth over N7.3m in street value at the Port Harcourt Ports complex, Onne, Rivers state.
The NDLEA in a weekly update on Sunday, said its operatives made the seizure on Saturday, following credible intelligence, and tracking of the consignments from their port of departure by the agency in collaboration with other security agencies.
“At the end of the joint examination of the six containers, a total of 6,125 cartons containing 1,050,000 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 157,500 kilograms were recovered on Saturday,” the agency said.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives at the Lagos International Airport in Lagos arrested two passengers travelling to Doha on a Qatar Airways flight at the screening point of terminal 2, on June 21.
The suspects including Aikhomoun Daniel and Ayigoro Waheed Omobolaji were arrested after they tested positive to ingestion of illicit substances. They were thereafter taken into observatory custody.
“While Daniel excreted a total of 90 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.022kg in six excretions, Ayigoro discharged 60 wraps of the same Class A substance with a total weight of 662grams in five egestion.
“Further investigation revealed that Aikhomoun Daniel actually stole the identity of his late uncle who was once based in Germany, a decision he claimed he took to get Schengen visa to enable him free access to Europe, while his real name is Oladapo Olanrewaju.,” the agency said.
