Six persons, including one female, suspected to be members of a drug trafficking network, have been arrested by operatives attached to the Special Cultism Squad, Obosi Sector of Anambra State Police Command.
The suspects, Chinyere Onwuka (32), John Kennedy Onwuka (36), Chidiebere Onyeze (30), Echeazu Nonso (35), Osita Chukwu Chialuka (21) and Nnebedum Wisdom (25), were arrested in the early hours of Friday, May 30, 2025.
A large quantity of dried leaves suspected to be hard drugs and other incriminating hard substances were recovered from the suspects in Isuaniocha, Awka North Local Government.
A statement by the Command’s Spokesman, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed that all the suspects shall be handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), in Awka, for further investigation and prosecution.
Meanwhile, State Commissioner of Police, Ikioye Orutugu, has described drugs are the oxygen that drives most crimes and bad behaviour exhibited by individuals.
The CP who frowned at the relative rise in drug consumption by the teeming youths in the State, expressed willingness to step up advocacy against illicit drugs through a Police Campaign against Cultism and other vices (POCACOV), a programme targeted to sensitize the youths of the dangers of drugs and other vices in the State.
