Wanted Drug Dealer Arrested In Lagos Church, Another Excretes Heroin

Operatives of the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company have arrested a suspected drug vendor, Stephen Ikeanyionwu, who was declared needed for allegedly trying to export 69 kilograms of cocaine, heroin and hashish to the UK by means of the NAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport at Ikeja, Lagos.

A press release on Sunday by the NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, mentioned the suspect was traced to a preferred Pentecostal church on Mike Ajari Road, Ojodu Berger, Ikeja, Lagos, on Sunday, August 15, 2021, when he was arrested quickly after he stepped out of the service.

In accordance with the NDLEA, the arrest adopted the interception of a consignment of illicit medication weighing 69.65kg going to the UK by means of the Lagos airport on Thursday, August 12, 2021.

“The unlawful baggage had been despatched to the airport for export by means of a freight forwarding firm, which in flip gave a driver to ship on the NAHCO export shed. Following the arrest of the driving force, comply with 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,” Babafemi mentioned.

Additionally on the Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives reportedly arrested an Italy-bound passenger, Abibu Miminu, throughout the outward clearance of passengers on an Ethiopian Airways flight to Italy by way of Addis-Ababa for allegedly ingesting illicit medication.

Whereas underneath remark on the company’s facility between Saturday, August 14, and Sunday, August 15, 2021, the trafficker reportedly excreted 68 wraps of heroin in three excretions, all weighing 800grams.

Meanwhile, a South Africa returnee, Obi Samuel, was additionally final Sunday arrested on the Lagos airport throughout the inward clearance of Ethiopian airways from Addis-Ababa, for importing 58g of skunk into Nigeria.