A church overseer, Reverend Ugochukwu Emmanuel Ekwem of Christ Living Hope church on his way for a crusade in Kenya has been arrested for allegedly wrapping 54 sticks of drug on his body.
This is according to a statement signed by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Femi Babfemi.
He said operatives of the agency arrested the suspect at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos.
According to the statement, the youthful and popular preacher who has his church headquarters in Isuaniocha, Mgbakwu road, Awka, Awka North LGA, Anambra state and two other branches in Lagos and Abuja, was arrested on Monday 7th March, during the outward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight to Nairobi via Addis Ababa.
It stated further that the 54 sticks proved positive to cannabis.
“The clergyman confessed during preliminary interview that he packed that quantity of illicit substance on his body to use during his three weeks crusade in Kenya.”
“On the same day, another passenger, Nnakeanyi Chukwuka King who arrived the airport on Ethiopian Airlines flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa was intercepted during the inward clearance of passengers at the E-Arrival Hall of the MMIA.”
“During a search of his luggage, forty (40) parcels of Cocaine concealed inside bottles of body cream with a gross weight of 9.70kg were recovered from the suspect,” the statement read.
