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The Anambra state police command has arrested six suspects involved in drug smuggling and distribution.
In a statement on Saturday signed by Tochukwu Ikenga, the police spokesperson, the command said the suspects were apprehended on Friday in Isuaniocha Awka north LGA of Anambra state.
The suspects were Chinyere Onwuka, aged 32 years; John Kennedy Onwuka, aged 36 years; Chidiebere Onyeze, aged 30 years; Echeazu Nonso, aged 35 years; Osita Chukwu Chialuka, aged 21 years; and Nnebedum Wisdom, aged 25 years.
Ikenga said a large quantity of dried leaves suspected to be hard drugs and other incriminating substances were recovered from them.
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“Police Operatives attached to the Special Cultism Squad, Obosi Sector in the early hours of 30th May 2025 while acting on credible information burst into a drug trafficking network,” the statement reads.
“During the raid, six suspects including a female drug dealer were arrested, and a large quantity of dried leaves suspected to be hard drugs and other incriminating hard substances were recovered in Isuaniocha, Awka North Local Government.
“All the suspects shall be transferred to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Awka for further necessary actions.”
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Ikenga said Ikioye Orutugu, commissioner of police, frowned at the relative rise in drug consumption by the teeming youths and noted that drugs are the oxygen that drives most crimes and bad behaviour exhibited by individuals.
He also expressed willingness to step up advocacy against illicit drugs through the Police Campaign Against Cultism and other Vices (POCACOV)’, a programme targeted to sensitise the youths to the dangers of drugs and other vices in the state.
