A female lawyer, simply identified as Adaobi, has been nabbed with large quantities of different drugs in a raid on her home by the Homeland Security of the Abia State Government and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in Umuahia, the Abia state capital.
Among illicit drugs recovered from her home were cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and cash of over N500,000.
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The Senior Special Assistant to the Abia State Governor on Homeland Security, Chukwunenye Alajemba, disclosed this at a news briefing Thursday in Umuahia.
Alajemba said the raid was conducted on Wednesday night at Adaobi’s residence at Arochukwu by Calabar Street, Umuahia.
At the briefing, attended by the Abia State Deputy Governor, Ikechukwu Emetu, and State Commandant of the NDLEA, Amos Adelanwa, Governor Alex Otto’s SSA said the suspect, who he alleged “is a drug lord, has been into hard drug business for a few decades”.
Revealing that four other persons were arrested with her, Alajemba said: “On February 14, before midnight, the Office of Homeland Security, in collaboration with NDLEA personnel, conducted a successful joint operation on the premises of Adaobi at Arochukwu Street Umuahia.”
He said the joint team seized large quantities of prohibited drugs, including cocaine, cannabis, heroin and methamphetamine, popularly known as nkpuri mmiri.
The hard drugs seized included 321 sachets (500 grams) of dry weed; 314 wraps (400 grams) of loud; 105 grams of cocaine; 37.8 grams of heroin; 129 grams of nkpuri mmiri, totalling about 1.217 kilograms of hard substances in all.
He also said that the joint team raided a notorious criminal hideout in Umuahia known as Down Below and arrested some suspected criminals.
Some quantities of narcotics, he said, were also confiscated during the raid.
Alajemba, who said the State Government had declared war against every form of illegal drugs, advised parents to caution their children and wards against the use of narcotics.
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