NDLEA Arrests Pastor with 3 drums of Mkpuru Mmiri in Akwa Ibom -Intercepts Australia, Indonesia bound Meth consignments . Nabs 90-year-old bandits’ drug supplier, others at Lagos airport, 6 states.

NDLEA Arrests Pastor with 3 drums of Mkpuru Mmiri in Akwa Ibom

-Intercepts Australia, Indonesia bound Meth consignments
. Nabs 90-year-old bandits’ drug supplier, others at Lagos airport, 6 states.

By Linda Ike

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a trans-border drug dealer, Pastor Anietie Okon Effiong with three drums of Crystal methamphetamine locally called Mkpru Mmiri

The consignment weighing 90 kilograms and loaded into a commercial bus with registration number RSH 691XC at Ojuelegba in Lagos was intercepted during a stop and search operation along Umuahia – Ikot Ekpene highway on Saturday 6th August 2022.

NDLEA believed that the Mkpru Mmiri have been imported from India by Pastor Effong who was arrested in a follow up operation at Oron beach in Oron, Akwaibom State.

According to the NDLEA , the dangerous drug was packed 30kg in each drum and the recovered meth were meant for onward delivery to the Republic of Cameroon.

NDLEA also arrested a 90-year-old retired soldier, Usman Adamu on Wednesday 3rd August in Mailalle, Sabon Birni LGA Sokoto for supplying bandits illicit drugs.

In a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy of the Agency Femi Babafemi said at the time of his arrest, the suspect was caught with 5.1kg cannabis sativa.

Similarly, the Agency has seized four of the same illicit substance (Mkpru Mmiri) weighing 4.074kg going to Australia, Indonesia and Philippines with a 3kg cannabis sativa heading to Dubai, United Arab Emirates at some courier companies in Lagos.

The consignments were concealed in body cream, hot burner iron and beads.

At the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, a 37-year-old indigene of Ovia LGA, Edo State and resident in Italy; Solo Osamede was also arrested for ingesting 41 wraps of heroin.

Babfemi said Osamede was nabbed and taken into custody for excretion while attempting to board a Turkish Airline flight to Milan, Italy via Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday 30th July.

He explained that the swallowed wraps of the illicit drug were recovered in four excretions, which the suspect completed on Monday 1st Aug.

Babafemi also listed other arrest and interceptions made by the Operatives of NDLEA to include a female passenger Jatau Lydia Lami who was arrested at the Lagos airport for attempting to export 1,700 tablets of Tramadol 225mg concealed in her luggage to Istanbul, Turkey via a Turkish Airline flight on Sunday 31st July which preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect, a mother of three, hails from Zango Kataf LGA, Kaduna State and lives in Istanbul, Turkey with her family.

The suspect blamed her action on pressure to raise N5million ransom to free her mother from the captivity of bandits who kidnapped her since June.

Again, at the SAHCO export shed of the Airport, attempts by some freight agents to export two consignments of cannabis in a consolidated cargo to Dubai, UAE on Thursday 4th Aug were thwarted by NDLEA operatives who have arrested two of them Oladipupo Oladapo Fatai and Animashaun Qudus, in a follow up operations, while two others are still at large.

In Zamfara, NDLEA operatives on Thursday 4th Aug intercepted a truck from Benin, Edo state enroute Sokoto with 50,000 tablets of Diazepam owned by a drug dealer, Umaru Attahiru, while in Kogi, 14 sacks containing 1,376 bottles of codeine based syrup weighing 190.4kg were seized along Okene-Abuja highway on Wednesday 3rd Aug.

Babafemi disclosed that the exhibits were found in a delivery bus coming from Onitsha, Anambra and heading to Abuja, disclosing that Follow up operation in Abuja same day led to the arrest of Jude Ikenna and Ozoemene Cornelius.

In Kaduna, four suspects: Sulaiman Rabi’u; Sanusi Sha’aibu; Ma’aruf Habibu and Christian Nnachor, were arrested in Zaria, Tafa and Romi Kaduna with 106, 770 tablets of Tramadol 225mg, Diazepam, Exol-5 and 100 bottles of codeine cough syrup.

In Enugu, 143.5kg cannabis sativa was recovered from locked up stores in new market area of the state capital on Saturday 6th Aug, while in Delta, a suspect, Ike Okparachi, 42, was arrested at Abraka Junction, Asaba with 10,550 tablets of Tramadol 225mg; Swinol; Rohypnol; and 3,105 bottles of codeine syrup as well as 69grams of Molly.

Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa commended the officers and men of the Akwa Ibom, MMIA, Sokoto, Zamfara, Kogi, Delta, Enugu, and Kaduna Commands of the Agency as well as those of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation, DOGI for their recent feats.
He charged them and others across the country to remain focused and vigilant.