By Wale Igbintade The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), yesterday arraigned a Brazil-based Nigerian, Mr. Ejiofor Felix Enwereaku, for unlawful importation of 27.95 kilogrammes of cocain…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency , yesterday arraigned a Brazil-based Nigerian, Mr. Ejiofor Felix Enwereaku, for unlawful importation of 27.95 kilogrammes of cocaine worth N8 billion.
Consequently, the charge was read to the defendant who thereafter pleaded not guilty to the three counts. After moving the bail application, and the prosecution reply by way of objection, Justice Oweibo, in his ruling on the bail application, granted bail to the defendant in the sum of N10 million with two sureties one of which must be a landed property owner within jurisdiction of the court why the second surety must be a civil servant not below grade level 12 in the service of the federal government or Lagos State.
‘”That you Ejiofor Felix Enwereaku, Male, Adult, on or about the 14th day of May 2021 became an accessory after the fact that a suitcase containing 27.95 Kilogrammes of Cocaine was intercepted by officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja – Lagos within the jurisdiction of the Honourable Court, offered the sum of $24,500 USD to bribe the officers of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency to enable them release to him the 27.
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