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Ndlea Nabs Wanted Drug Kingpin Ngene Onyedikachi After 25-Day Search

POSTED ON December 1, 2023 •   Uncategorized      BY Segun Adewole
Ngene Onyedikachi, a suspected drug kingpin responsible for recruiting fake couple smugglers arrested in Lagos on August 1, 2023, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. Onyedikachi was arrested at his Akoka, Yaba residence by operatives of the NDLEA on Friday. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafem. The couple recruited by the drug kingpin, Onyebuchi and Nonyelum, were nabbed for ingesting 184 wraps of cocaine weighing 3.322kg. The agency stated that 100grams of the drug was also concealed in the wife’s private part. The NDLEA also revealed the arrest of suspects namely Peter Iwebema, Ekechukwu Ndubuisi, Suleiman Oba, Nafiu Arzika, Jamilu Aminu and Ismaila Razak among others, for various drug-related offences across the country. The statement added, “During his interview, Onyedikachi confessed that the two suspects: Ilonzeh Onyebuchi and Ilonzeh Nonyelum were introduced to him by another member of his syndicate, whom he claimed he met at Zion Church in the Cele area of Lagos. He explained that the drug was sourced from Guinea Conakry. “The suspect revealed that when he got information about the arrest of the fake couple, he threw away his old mobile phone along with the SIM cards to avoid being traced, adding that he became relaxed and refused to leave his house because the two couriers do not know his house since they have only met twice at different locations. “He said he was living in India before he returned to Nigeria in 2022 after the Indian authorities discovered that he was using Ivory Coast International passport. A blue Acura Legend car was part of items recovered from his home during his arrest.” "Meanwhile, one of the other suspects arrested during various raids across the country, Iwebema was arrested in the Ikorodu area of Lagos state for possession of cannabis sativa while his counterparts were arrested at the Tincan port command. "Another suspect, Oba, who holds a South African passport, was nabbed while trying to board a Rwanda Air flight to South Africa on Friday with boxes loaded with ephedrine sealed in semovita packs. Similarly, Arzika, Aminu and Razak were arrested in Sokoto and Oyo states with different forms of hard drugs among which are skunk and methamphetamine on Tuesday and Saturday respectively."
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