Two drug lords from Qatar, Eyah Celestine Nnamdi, alias Murphy, and Ugwuoke Peter Oluchukwu, were detained by agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, or NDLEA, after their shipment of methamphetamine was intercepted at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, in Ikeja, Lagos.
According to a statement made by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, Ugwuoke was the first individual detained on June 9 during the outward clearance of passengers from Qatar Airways at the airport’s Terminal 2 departure location.
“NDLEA officers discovered that the suspect was travelling to Doha with an Ivorian international passport with the name Hien Narcisse. Further scrutiny of his black carry-on luggage led to the discovery of a false bottom concealment of two parcels of crystalline substance that tested positive for methamphetamine weighing 1.00kg,” Babafemi said.
Babafemi to him, preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect is a Nigerian who went to obtain an Ivorian passport for his trips.
“He confessed that he travelled to Qatar in August 2022 and returned from the Arab nation about two months ago to perfect arrangements for the movement of the drug consignment.
“A further probe led operatives to discover that his Qatar-based senior partner in the trade simply identified as Murphy was lurking around in Eziani, his home town in Nsukka LGA, Enugu State. Ugwuoke who hails from Igboeze North Local Government Area of the State claims he holds a National Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Federal Polytechnic Oko,” he said
The arrest of “Murphy,” whose real name was later revealed to be Eyah Celestine Nnamdi, who had previously lived in Indonesia for a while before relocating to Doha, Qatar, was made possible, according to Babafemi, thanks to the prompt deployment of NDLEA agents to the Eziani community in the Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State on June 10.
