NDLEA Arrests Groom At Pre-wedding Party

By Ayodele Oni

Operatives of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has announced how they stormed a pre wedding party in Katsina state and arrested the husband-to-be.

The Agency explained that acting on intelligence, its operatives disrupted the pre-wedding ceremony, where drug abuse competition was ongoing in a community popularly known as Shola Quarters, in Katsina.

Director of Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi in a statement on Sunday said in the process, the operatives arrested the groom and 25 other youths participating in the drug party.

“The operatives 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 organized the drug party along with his friends, was not at the venue at the time the 25 others were arrested, he was however nabbed on Sunday 3rd December following a manhunt for him.”

In another operation, the spokesman stated that “On Saturday, 9th December 2023, it intercepted at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, Enugu, 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 17.6 kilograms.

“During preliminary interview, the suspect admitted the cocaine consignments were for delivery to 12 different persons in the country.”