Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Katsina State disrupted a pre-wedding ceremony drug abuse competition in a community popularly known as Shola Quarters, Katsina and arrested 25 youths participating in the drug party.
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.
In a related development, NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos on Friday arrested a fleeing suspect, Onyejiuwa Prince Ifeanyi, who had gone into hiding since September 8 following the seizure of a United Kingdom-bound 20kg cannabis consignment concealed in tomato pastes tins at the SAHCO shed linked to him.
In the same vein, operatives of the Seaports Operations of the agency on Monday, December 4, arrested a 45-year-old Beninoise, Jamila Fatiu, at Ebute Ero Jetty in Lagos Island with 398 bottles of codeine cough syrup on her way to Seme border via a boat service.