The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) busted two Qatar-based drug lords with a methamphetamine shipment. The agency apprehended the Qatar-Based Eyah Celestine Nnamdi, alias Murphy, and Ugwuoke Peter Oluchukwu at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, in Ikeja, Lagos.
Femi Babafemi, NDLEA’s spokesman, reported that they detained Ugwuoke on June 9th. Officials detained him during the outbound clearance of Qatar Airways passengers at Terminal 2 of the Lagos airport.
Babafemi stated that the NDLEA officers learned the suspect was heading to Doha on an Ivorian international passport named Hien Narcisse.
“A further scrutiny of his black carry-on luggage led to the discovery of a false bottom concealment of two parcels of crystalline substance that tested positive to methamphetamine weighing 1.00kg.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect is a Nigerian who had gone to obtain an Ivorian passport for his travels.
“He confessed that he travelled to Qatar in August 2022 and returned from the Arab nation about two months ago to perfect arrangement for the movement of the drug consignment,” he explained.
According to Babafemi, after subsequent investigation, operatives uncovered that his Qatar-based senior partner in the operation, known as Murphy, was living around in Eziani, his home town in Nsukka LGA, Enugu State.
He disclosed that Ugwuoke, from the State’s Igboeze North Local Government Area, claimed to have a National Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Federal Polytechnic, Oko.
“A prompt deployment of NDLEA operatives on 10th June to Eziani community of Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, led to the arrest of ‘Murphy’ whose true identity was later discovered to be Eyah Celestine Nnamdi, who had lived in Indonesia for some years before relocating to Doha, Qatar,” he disclosed.
cc: PM News Ng
