NDLEA Busts Drug Wedding Party, Arrests Groom, Others

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Katsina State, said it disrupted a pre-wedding ceremony of drug abuse competition in a community popularly known as Shola Quarters, Katsina.

The NDLEA who said it’s operatives acted on intelligence, notes that 25 youths who were participating in the drug party were arrested.

Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said this on Sunday in a statement.

He said that officers of the agency swooped on the suspects while they were busy taking turns abusing all sorts of illicit substances including a mixture of multiple drugs mixed in a plastic bucket.

“Though the groom, Musa Gwandi who organised the drug party along with his friends was not at the venue at the time the 25 others were arrested, he was nabbed on Sunday, December 3 following a manhunt for him,” Babafemi said.

He also said that on Saturday, NDLEA operatives at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA), Enugu, intercepted 12 consignments of cocaine belonging to members of a drug trafficking organisation.

A businessman, Augustine Justine Emeka, 44, who claims he deals in copper wire, was arrested at the airport upon his arrival from Douala, Cameroon via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Ethiopia Airline with the 12 consignments consisting of 797 pellets of cocaine weighing 17.6kgs.

During the preliminary interview, the suspect reportedly admitted the cocaine consignments were for delivery to 12 different persons in the country.