The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has uncovered a snake guarded shrine in Edo State that is actually a storehouse for drugs.
The snake guarded shrine used to store illicit drugs in Igor community, Benin city, Edo state, has been raided by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency,
NDLEA found a specially constructed large hole storage in a wall covered with wallpapers and fetish objects at the drug storehouse disguising as a shrine.
Assorted quantities of illicit substances such as methamphetamine, Loud, Colorado, Arizona and different strains of cannabis with a total weight of 8.743 kilograms, were pulled out from the deep hole dug in the wall of the shrine building.
At least, two ladies: Sonia Chinonso Ezumezu and Risikatu Tijani were arrested during intelligence-led operation recently.
The big black snake guarding the shrine was demobilized before NDLEA officers could carry out their duties.
In the same vein, two suspects: Obi Ferguson,45, and Ernest Abanum, 46, were arrested on Saturday 22nd June when NDLEA operatives raided the Usen forest in Ovia South West LGA of Edo state where 209kg of cannabis and a motorcycle were seized.
Meanwhile, NDLEA officers in Lagos have intercepted a carefully packaged consignment of 8.2 kilograms of methamphetamine at a motor park in Mazamaza, Ojo area of the state.
The highly addictive illicit substance, also called ice or crystal meth was packed in imported Dunkin’ turtle love chocolate wraps and then concealed in the casing of three loud speakers.
A 39-year-old suspect, Michael Odiomume who was sending the consignment to Owerri, Imo state was promptly arrested on Wednesday 19th June at the park.
