Nigeria man arrested in Philippines for drug trafficking
Valentine Ezike, a Nigerian living in Philippine has been arrested by the agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Regional Office 4-A in Barangay Biclatan, Cavite, Philippines.
The News Agency in Philippines on Sunday quoted a PDEA report that, authorities seized from Ezike of Palmdale Village, Governor’s Hill around 500 grams of suspected ‘shabu,’ (a variant of methamphetamine), a box containing two resealable transparent plastic bags containing more or less 1,000 grams each of brownish granules substance, plastic basin containing weighing scale, and four identification card, among others.
PDEA however said, Ezike will be charged with violation of sections 5 and 11, Article II of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, while adding that Ezike was believed to be a member of the West African Drug Syndicate that recruits Filipinos to transport illegal drugs.
