The resident minister
of Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim, Agodo-Egbe, Ikotun branch,
Lagos, has been arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement
Agency, NDLEA, for allegedly attempting to export narcotics with a street value
of N609 million to South Africa. The suspect, identified as Prophet Michael
Raji, 60, was arrested, following the interception of the drugs at the cargo
section of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, during
pre-shipment examination. He told NDLEA officers that he received the drugs
from a friend and had kept them in his church since October 2014. The seized
drugs, which weighed 174 kilogrammes, were reportedly concealed inside large
bags of foodstuff. A breakdown of the recovered drugs, according to the NDLEA
Commander at Lagos Airport, Mr. Hamza Umar, was 91kg of Methamphetamine and
83kg of Ephedrine. Preliminary investigation indicated that Prophet Raji was a
suspected top member of a drug syndicate operating in Nigeria, Ghana and South
Africa, because three international passports bearing the suspect’s photographs
were recovered. Umar said: “One of the passports bears the name Michael Raji,
while the other two bear the name Kadigun Fatah Ola. “It was equally discovered
that the church premises also serves as a warehouse for narcotics. A Mercedes
Benz SUV was also impounded during the operation. “The drugs were brought to
the airport for export to South Africa. Investigation eventually traced the
movement of the drugs to his church premises where he was arrested
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