NDLEA arrests 60 at Abuja drug party

• 2 excrete 150 cocaine wraps in Lagos

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have disrupted a drug party dubbed ‘Go hard or Go Home: Pick Your Poison,’ where 60 suspects comprising 25 males and 35 females were arrested at an apartment in Sun City Estate in Abuja.

The spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in a statement noted that the raid followed credible intelligence about the drug party, organised by one Stanley Ikechukwu, who was arrested at the venue on Friday.

“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,” Babafemi said.

He said the chairman/chief executive officer of the NDLEA, Brig-Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd), had directed that 20 of the suspects who tested negative to drug be released unconditionally, while 33 others who tested positive to illicit drugs were to be released on bail and would report at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) command of the agency on Monday to begin treatment and counselling.

Also, NDLEA officers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos State, arrested two passengers travelling to Doha on a Qatar Airways flight at the screening point of Terminal 2 after they tested positive to ingestion of illicit substances on Friday, June 21.

The suspects – Aikhomoun Daniel (Oladapo Olanrewaju) and Ayigoro Waheed Omobolaji – were thereafter taken into observatory custody.

While Daniel allegedly excreted a total of 90 wraps of cocaine, weighing 1.022kg in six excretions, Ayigoro allegedly discharged 60 wraps of the same Class A substance, with a total weight of 662grams.

Further investigation revealed that 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 have free access to Europe, while his real name is Oladapo Olanrewaju.

Meanwhile, NDLEA officials intercepted 6,125 cartons of codeine syrup containing 1,050,000 bottles of the opioid worth over N7.35bn in street value, at the Port Harcourt Ports complex, Onne, Rivers State.

Also, no less than 40.32kgs of Loud, an imported strong strain of cannabis was on Friday 28th June recovered in a black Toyota Tacoma truck along Lekki-Ikoyi road when the driver jumped off the vehicle after noticing that NDLEA operatives were on his trail.