Convicted Drug Trafficker Narrates How Cocaine was Smuggled through Enugu Int’l Airport  – THISDAYLIVE

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*Alleges complicity of operatives 

Alex Enumah in Abuja

The sixth prosecution witness, Mr Emeka Alphonsus Ezenwanne, in the trial of DCP Abba Kyari and four others, on Thursday, narrated how he and his colleagues brought cocaine from Ethiopia into Nigeria, via the Enugu International Airport.

The witness, who claimed not to be a drug dealer, admitted to have smuggled drugs into Nigeria only on two occasions, just as he indicted the operatives of the agency stationed at the Enugu International Airport.

Ezenwanne alongside one Chibunna Patrick Umeibe were the two drug traffickers arrested by members of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IGP-IRT) at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu.

They were convicted and sentenced to six years’ imprisonment after they pleaded guilty to the three counts charge preferred against them by the NDLEA.

Nwite had ordered that the three counts, which attracted two-year jail term each,…



Source: Thisday Newspaper