………..blocks 107 bank accounts, N119million; seals hotel, mansions
The Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted one of its largest consignment of illicit drugs at the Lagos Airport and also arrested the kingpins involved in the deals, seized hotels and mansions built from the proceeds of drug dealing.
Among those arrested is one Adinnu Felix Chinedu, who confessed during interrogation, that he is the main distributor for a drug syndicate whose membership is spread across Nigeria.
“He admitted that he usually conveyed the consignment to a dedicated warehouse located in Ayobo area of Lagos which served as a workshop where he would dismantle the consignment and remove the drugs from the machines.
Thereafter, he would wait for a list of various recipients to be forwarded to him from South Africa by the head of the criminal group.
In a statement the agency said: “This syndicate has a wide network in Nigeria because the consignments we seized were marked with several codenames, showing that they belonged to different members of this organised criminal group.
“Furthermore, in our follow-up operation, we uncovered from the suspect a long list of receivers of illicit drugs.
“In the end, we were able to identify the kingpin of the syndicate here in Nigeria and his name is Reginald Peter Chidiebere.
“Our investigations showed that he owns an Hotel and Suite, located somewhere in Hope Estate, Ago Palace.”
The Agency said the measure yielded further results on Thursday 22nd February when a female member of the syndicate and wife of Festus Ibewuike, Mrs Confidence Ndidiamaka Ibewuike who is one of those to collect part of the consignment from Adinnu Felix Chinedu, was arrested at Ago Palace area.
She later narrated how her husband identified who is a kingpin and currently resides in Mozambique used to send drug consignments to her through Adinnu Felix Chinedu.
