NDLEA arrests wanted suspected drug baron
A wanted suspected drug baron who operates under the cover of a businessman and hotelier, Frank Chijioke Ibemesi, alias Chisco Bee, has been arrested by operatives of a Special Operations Unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) after weeks of intelligence gathering and surveillance on his criminal activities. The 42-year-old Ibemesi, was arrested […]
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A wanted suspected drug baron who operates under the cover of a businessman and hotelier, Frank Chijioke Ibemesi, alias Chisco Bee, has been arrested by operatives of a Special Operations Unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) after weeks of intelligence gathering and surveillance on his criminal activities.
The 42-year-old Ibemesi, was arrested at his hotel at Ago Palace Way, Isolo, Lagos, in the early hours of Saturday.
A statement by the Agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said after the arrest, Ibemesi was taken to his warehouse at, where 42 jumbo bags and four cartons of Loud, a strain of cannabis weighing 1,762.8 kilograms, were recovered.
Also seized from him at the point of his arrest was cash totaling $11,600 US dollars; 2,000 British Pounds; 2,200 Euros; and 50 Canadian dollars, the statement added.
Babafemi added that an attempt by a drug syndicate operating at Orita-Apeje, Araromi-Okeodo forest reserve, Ife South LGA, Osun State, to load and distribute large quantities of processed skunk, a strain of cannabis, weighing a total of 11,135 kilograms was thwarted on Tuesday, November 11, by NDLEA operatives after days of surveillance in the forest.
He said two trucks being used to transport the illicit consignments—a Volvo truck marked WWR 29 XA and a Mercedes truck with registration number AWK 713 YZ—were seized and seven suspects arrested.
Those in custody in connection with the seizure, according to him, are: Lucky Abiodun, Julius Amos, Victor Ngbikili, Sunday Oduegwu, Ibrahim Akanni, Eze Godstime, and Fred Ifeanyichukwu.
He also added that a total of 1,902.1 kilograms of skunk had been recovered in parts of Edo State, while 184.1kg was recovered along a bush path at Oza/Igbanke Road, Igbanke, in Orhionmwon LGA last Thursday.