Italy-based drug baron visiting Imo parents excretes heroin & More News Here

A Nigerian drug baron primarily based in Italy, Nwakanma Uche, 36, has reportedly excreted 95 pellets of heroin after being arrested by males of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.

Uche was arrested on the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, after it was found that he had ingested the pellets.

The Director of Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, mentioned the drug baron, who hailed from Arodizuogu village, within the Ideato Local Government Area of Imo State, was nabbed whereas making an attempt to board an Air France airplane on his option to Paris, France, Milan and Italy, on Sunday, May 15, 2022.

Babafemi mentioned, “Uche was stored below remark and supervision, throughout which he excreted the 95 pellets of the illicit drug.

“The wrongdoer claimed to see his parents in Nigeria after 12 years in Italy.

“Uche confessed that he would be paid N1.5m after a successful delivery of the drugs in Milan.”

In an analogous improvement, the company mentioned it arrested a wished drug kingpin behind the 2000.6kg hashish sativa seized in a concrete mixer truck in Adamawa State on December 2, 2021.

Babafemi mentioned the suspect, Henry Okamaru, aka Lawrence IK Okamaru, was arrested in Ondo State after 5 months of manhunt by operatives of the NDLEA.

He mentioned, “Two suspects, Matthew Donuwe and Friday Nmborgwu, had been arrested in reference to the consignment in December 2021.

“The duo confessed that the concrete mixer truck, with a Lagos registration quantity, SMK 890 XB, was loaded with the illicit drug in Ogbese, Ondo State.

“We travelled for 2 months on the street earlier than arriving in Adamawa the place they had been finally arrested by NDLEA operatives.

“Investigations revealed that Okamaru is likely one of the leaders of a hashish cultivation cartel that operates within the Ondo-Ekiti axis.

“Okamaru shuttles by means of Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo and Delta States, from the place he coordinates provides of illicit consignments to northern components of the nation and Lagos State.

“The drug lord has additionally been recognized as a member of a global drug trafficking ring, whereas he shuttles between Nigeria and South Africa, the place his household is settled.

“Okamaru has a strong control and stake in cannabis cultivation in Ondo, Edo, Ekiti, Osun and Oyo states, with large storage facilities in Lagos and Abbi in Delta State, from where his consignments are distributed year-round.”