Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a popular Akwa Ibom State pastor, Pastor Anietie Okon Effiong with three drums of crystal methamphetamine, locally called Mkpuru Mmiri, believed to have been imported from India.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Pastor Effiong was arrested after the consignment weighing 90 kilograms and loaded into a commercial bus with registration number RSH 691XC was intercepted during a stop and search operation along the Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene highway on Saturday.
According to the NDLEA, Pastor Effiong was arrested at Oron beach in Oron, adding that the consignment, loaded into the commercial bus at Ojuelegba, Lagos State, was meant for onward delivery to the Republic of Cameroon.
Meanwhile, the drug law enforcement agency disclosed in a statement on Sunday that a female passenger, Jatau Lydia Lami was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos Sunday 31st July for attempting to export 1,700 tablets of Tramadol 225mg concealed in her luggage to Istanbul, Turkey via a Turkish Airline flight.
The agency disclosed that preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect, a mother of three, hails from Zango Kataf LGA, Kaduna State and lives in Istanbul, Turkey with her family. She blamed her action on pressure to raise N5 million ransom to free her mother from the captivity of bandits who kidnapped her in June.
