Suspected Drug Dealer On Wanted List Arrested In Church

Church service ended on a bitter word for Stephen Afam Ikeanyionwu, on Sunday as he was arrested by operatives of Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company, NDLEA, as quickly as he stepped out of a well-liked Pentecostal church at Mike Ajari road, Ojodu Berger space of Lagos the place he has gone to worship.

Operatives of NDLEA had traced Ikeanyoinwu to the church following his linkage to aim to export 69.65 kilograms of cocaine, heroin, and hashish to the UK by means of the NAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport, MMIA, Lagos.

He had allegedly despatched the luggage containing the medicine to the airport for export by means of a freight forwarding firm, which in flip gave it to a driver to ship on the NAHCO export shed.

Nonetheless, operatives of the NDLEA intercepted the consignment of illicit medicine on Thursday, twelfth August 2021 and commenced a manhunt for the baron behind the tried export of illicit medicine, Femi Babafemi, Director of Media and Advocacy, NDLEA mentioned in an announcement.

“Following the arrest of the driving force, follow-up operations and investigations later revealed the true id of the particular proprietor of the consignment, Stephen Afam Ikeanyionwu, who was arrested three days later in a sting operation,” he added.