The Anambra State Police Command has busted a traffic syndicate and arrested six suspects, including a female, and recovered a large quantity of incriminating substances in Isuaniocha community, Awka North Local Government Area.
In a press statement released on Saturday, the spokesman for the state Police Command, Tochukwu Ikenga, said police operatives attached to the Special Cultism Squad, Obosi Sector, acting on credible information, carried out the exercise in the early hours of Friday.
Ikenga said the Commissioner of Police, Ikioye Orutugu, 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.
The spokesman stated that the CP expressed willingness to step up advocacy against illicit drugs through a Police Campaign against Cultism and other vices, a programme targeted to sensitise the youths of the dangers of drugs and other vices in the state.”
He said, “Police operatives attached to the Special Cultism Squad, Obosi Sector, in the early hours of 30th May 2025, while acting on credible information, busted into a drug trafficking network.
“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 substances were recovered in Isuaniocha, Awka North Local Government.
“The suspects include Chinyere Onwuka ‘F’ aged 32 years, John Kennedy Onwuka ‘M’ aged 36 years, Chidiebere Onyeze aged 30 years, Echeazu Nonso ‘M’ aged 35 years, Osita Chukwu Chialuka ‘M’ aged 21 years and Nnebedum Wisdom ‘M’ aged 25 years respectively.”
Ikenga added that all the suspects shall be transferred to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Awka, for further necessary actions.
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