NDLEA Rivers State Command records conviction of 21 drug dealers in October

….1 drug kingpin nabbed with 1.6kg of Methamphetamine (Mkpurunmiri)

On November 8, National drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Rivers State Command, says 21 drug barons have been convicted. A press statement signed and sent to Africa Update by Emmanuel Ogbumgbada, Assistant State Commander, Media and Advocacy, said the drug dealers were convicted at the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, and are serving various jail terms at the Correctional Service Centre in PortHarcourt.

The statement reads: “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.

Meanwhile, in the month of October 2022, Rivers State Command of NDLEA 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, PortHarcourt.

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 look out for clandestine laboratories where Methamphetamine production may be taking place so that together we can root out drug menace from our society.”