Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Rivers State Command, have arrested a 40-year-old man, identified as Danion Onuoha during a raid at Elele Alimini town in Emuoha council of the state with 1.6kg of white and brown Methamphetamine.
According to the Assistant State Commander, Media & Advocacy, Emmanuel Ogbumgbada in a statement on Tuesday, the operation happened in the early hours of Monday.
Ogbumgbada noted that a monetary exhibit to the tune of N650, 700 was found with the suspect adding that the suspect is in detention undergoing investigation.
“At about 3:30 pm of Monday 7th November 2022, Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Rivers State Command nabbed one Damion Onuoha ‘M’ 40 yrs, during a raid operation at Elele Alimini town of Emuoha LGA, with 1.6kg of white and brown Methamphetamine, and also recovered monetary exhibit amounting to six hundred and fifty thousand, seven hundred naira (N650,700.00) only.
“Mr Onuoha who hails from Elele Alimini town is in the Command’s detention facility undergoing investigation,” he said.
Also, Ogbumgbada explained that in the month of October 2022, the State Command successfully convicted twenty-one (21) drug dealers at the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, and the convicts are serving various jail terms at the Correctional Service Centre in Port Harcourt.
He said: “The Command also arrested twenty-one (21) suspects comprising Nineteen (19) males and two (2) females with a total seizure of 424.72kg of illicit drugs such as cocaine, heroin, Cannabis Sativa and methamphetamine aka Mkpurunmiri. Others are psychotropic substances such as tramadol and Swinol.
“The State Commander, Commander Ahmed Mamuda, enjoins Rivers people to be on the lookout for clandestine laboratories where Methamphetamine production may be taking place so that together we can root out drug menace from our society.”
