No fewer than 25 youths participating in the drug party have been arrested after operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Katsina State, acting on intelligence, disrupted a pre-wedding ceremony drug abuse competition in a community popularly known as Shola Quarters, Katsina.
In a statement by Femi Babafemi, the spokesperson of the agency on Sunday said that the 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.
He said, “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 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.