The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has declared a popular Port Harcourt-based prophetess and founder of Christ Power Adoration Ministries, Faith Ugochi, wanted for allegedly recruiting teenage girls into drug trafficking, alongside celebrity couple Igho Ubiribo and Danielle Simba Allen wanted for the same offence.
NDLEA spokesperson for the anti-drug agency, Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement issued on Sunday.
He mentioned that the suspects belong to an international syndicate operating from Los Angeles, United States of America.
According to Babafemi, the cartel was exposed when NDLEA operatives at the NAHCO import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos intercepted a consignment of 32.70 kilograms of Loud, a strong variant of cannabis concealed in cartons of used wears on Wednesday, November 16, 2022.
Following that, a freight agent, Ukoh Ifeanyi Oguguo, was immediately arrested while further investigations led to the arrest of four more suspects: Chikodi Favour; Obiyom Shalom Chiamaka; Nnochiri Chidinma Promise and Edward Omatseye (aka
According to the statementq, the 15-year-old Favour was the first sales girl to be arrested at a fuel station in Ajah area of Lagos and dhe thereafter led the operatives to a duplex accommodation around the Ikate area of Lekki, which was later discovered to be a rented apartment by the criminal group purposely for four young girls that the syndicate uses for marketing and distribution of illicit drugs.
The NDLEA has further sought and obtained an order of the Federal High Court Lagos to declare wanted the celebrity couple: Ubiribo Igho and Danielle Allen, as the arrowheads of the illicit trade as well as Prophetess Faith Ugochi, who recruits teenage girls as sales representatives for the duo.
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