Liberia: Nigerian Community Complains DEA to LACC

26 February 2015

The Nigerian Community in Liberia has complained to the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) about what it calls constant harassment of their kinsmen by officers of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). According to the Nigerian community complaint to LACC a copy of which is in the possession of this paper, the DEA officers are in the constant habit of raiding Nigerians in the name of drug-search. The complaint said Nigerian businessmen are robbed whenever DEA officers enter their premises in the name of search and seizure, and that many times the DEA officers go without warrants.

In the complaint written to the LACC, the Nigerian community explained that one of their members, IkechukwuMbanugo, a resident of Matadi, was attacked by DEA officers at his residence last month at about 4:30 a.m., accusing him of being a drug dealer, a claim which he refuted and told the officers that he was a money exchanger.

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