Egwu Phillip Inya, a suspected drug trafficker, who claims to be a building engineer, has been arrested by the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) while attempting to take delivery of illicit consignments covered in pressure machines imported from South Africa.
Femi Babafemi, Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Jahi, Abuja, in a statement on Sunday said the 42-year-old Egwu was arrested on Monday 2nd December 2024 at Okeyson motor park Enugu when he showed up to collect three units of pressure machines.
According to Babafemi, inside the items were hidden parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 7.40 kilograms.
“The consignments had arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos import shed on 29th November 2024. Following credible intelligence, officers of the MMIA Strategic Command of the Agency had monitored the shipment pass through clearing processes up to a logistics company’s warehouse outside the airport where it was to be collected by the consignee.
“The importer however changed the point of collection to Enugu at the last minute. As a result, NDLEA operatives in a follow up operation in Enugu arrested Egwu when he showed up to collect the consignments.
“No fewer than 511,000 pills of tramadol were recovered from a Siena vehicle at Hildi, Askira Uba way in Adamawa state by NDLEA operatives on patrol along the road in the early hours of Friday 6th December. The occupants of the vehicle had made a detour on sighting the NDLEA team and after a distance abandoned the vehicle with the consignments after noticing the operatives were on their trail,” the statement reads
