NDLEA arrests suspect with N75m worth of cocaine

The Cross River State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has apprehended a suspect, Kelechi Amaka, with 6.3kg of cocaine valued at N75m.

Amaka, an Imo State indegene predicated in Cameroon, was apprehended at the Nigerian Inland Waterways Authority Jetty in Calabar peregrinating from Cameroon.

Parading the suspect at the office of the NDLEA in Calabar, the state Commander of the agency, Mr. Kayode Adeniyi, verbally expressed the drugs were concealed in six factory sealed ladies hand bags and kept in a leather box.

The NDLEA boss integrated that, endeavors to smuggle the drug into Nigeria failed as the suspect was intercepted by NDLEA officers on operation at the NIWA Jetty.

He stressed that the apprehend was the most sizably voluminous singular one with veneration to category ‘A’ drug ever made by the Cross River State Command.

“Few days ago, as a result of our pain taking efforts towards efficacious operations, the command apprehended one Kelechi Amaka, male, 26 years old, a Nigerian at the Inland waterways jetty calabar. he was caught with 6.3 kilograms of cocaine,” he verbally expressed.

According to him, the most trafficked drug in this component of the country has been Cannabis sativa popularly kenned as Indian hemp.

He verbalized, “No doubt the most commonly traffiked drugs is Cannabis Sativa popularly kenned as Hemp which is given appellations locally. nowadays, we have discovered the influx of Cocaine and Heroin into the illicit drug market in Calabar and its environs.”

The suspect who is still in the custody of NDLEA told PUNCH Metro that he was acting on injuctive authorizations from his ascendant figure in Cameroon to distribute the female hand bags to someone in Nigeria.

He verbalized he had no erudition of the contents obnubilated inside.