NDLEA nabs final year varsity student for importing 5 variants of liquid cannabis

By OMON OKHUEVBIE

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a final year student of Fine Arts and Design at the University of Port Harcourt, Mario Okiwelu, in Rivers State, for importing five variants of liquid cannabis weighing 49.6grams from the United States.

According to the agency in a statement on Sunday, he was apprehended along with his accomplice, Precious Awuse, on Monday last week through controlled delivery around the NIPOST area in Port Harcourt.

The hard drugs were concealed in a University of Uyo certificate and imported from the United States.

Also, the agency nabbed a fake soldier, Hayatu Galadima, and his accomplice, Hamisu Adamu, for conveying drugs, ammunition, and communication equipment to bandits in Kaduna State.

They were arrested on Friday last week by a patrol team of NDLEA officers along the Gwagwalada Expressway in Abuja.

The NDLEA operatives recovered 21 RLA 7.45mm ammunition concealed in a water bottle; 16 packs of new two-way radio (walkie talkie); four army coloured head masks; and a wallet containing an army ID from the suspects.

Also recovered from the suspects were three mobile phones, seven Nigerian Army pass letters, five handbags, and a sack containing personal belongings, among other items.

The Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Brigadier-General Buba Marwa has furthered ordered the FCT Command of the Agency to transfer the suspects to authorities of the Nigerian Army and another intelligence agency, which had earlier placed the two men on its watch list. (Daily Independent)