Gbenga Ariyibi
20 November 2008
The Nigeria Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Ekiti State Command, has intercepted a Lagos-Abuja-bound commercial vehicle with 20 grammes of cocaine stocked in a Bible.
Speaking with newsmen in Ado-Ekiti yesterday on the activities of his agency, the state Commander of NDLEA, Mr. Ben Ikani, said the suspected hard drug trafficker was arrested after the vehicle was intercepted by his men in the state.
After a thorough search of the vehicle, a parcel, containing a Bible stocked with 20 grammes of cocaine was allegedly found with the driver of the vehicle.
Upon interrogation, according to the NDLEA boss, the driver of the vehicle claimed that the parcel was owned by someone in Lagos who had paid him N800 to deliver it to another person in Abuja.
The recipient's name and telephone number were said to have been written on the back of the envelope.
He said, unknown to the driver, the supposedly Bible was an old book of Bible size, the centre of which had been cut and stocked with the substance and wrapped with a newspaper before sealing it in the envelope.
Ikani added that he had taken permission from the headquarters of the agency to allow him proceed to Abuja and effect the arrest of the recipient, who is now in their net.
He added that the agency was still on the look out for the sender of the illicit drug.
In a related development, the agency said it has destroyed 22 acres of Indian hemp plantations and arrested 13 suspects.
Ikani added that his men were able to locate the different marijuana farms at Aramoko in the Ekiti South-West Local Government Area and Odo-Owa in the Ijero Local Government Area after seven days in the bush.
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