The Commander, NDLEA, Abia State Command, Mr Bamidele
Akingbade, said the suspect, Onyebuchi Agbo, who claimed to be an
intra-city bus driver, was caught with 20.3 grams of cocaine, 27.5 grams
of heroin and some wraps of cannabis.
He said
that the suspect was caught with over 100 small wraps of cocaine and
heroin which he sells at N100 and N50, respectively.
He also said Onyebuchi will be charged to court this week but would appear before a judge at the end of their vacation.
He said:
“For
us to process his trial, we have to file a charge now. The courts are
open with the other officials but the judges are not there at the
Federal High Courts because they are on vacation.
So
they are going to take the charge and we can now hold him in custody
until the courts resumes. But as soon as the courts resume, he will be
arraigned with 17 other drug suspects in Abia.
We
are going to use the services of the vacation judge in Port Harcourt to
start their trial process and to remand them pending the resumption of
the Federal High Court.".
Onyebuchi said he was
forced by hardship to return to selling hard drugs for an Aba-based drug
courier named Agbo after quitting the business which took him to prison
in 2008.
He narrated his own side of the story:
“I
used to sell drugs but I left it since for a long time now. I have been
arrested before and the person I was selling for left me to go to
prison in 2008.
When I was freed from prison in
2010, I left the business. I came here because last two months Agbo, a
drug courier in Aba, called me to come to his place and sell market for
him.
So he said he will beat me up when he sees me
and today he saw me with his henchmen along Ohanku road and they
started beating me with matchets.
I ate the money last two months and ran away. He was the one who called me to come and sell drugs for him.
They came today and beat me and handed me over to the NDLEA. It is Agbo that sells the drugs."
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