….Two ladies busted for peddling drug-laced cupcakes
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a US-trained Hollywood and Nollywood filmmaker, Emeka Emmanuel Mbadiwe for drug offences.
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According to a statement by NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, operatives arrested Mbadiwe, who is also motivational speaker in a hotel in Lekki, Lagos on December 27, 2024.
This, the spokesman said, followed the arrest of Mbadiwe’s partner, Uzoekwe Ugochukwu James, earlier same day at a warehouse in Ajao Estate, Ikeja, where he was sent by Mbadiwe to collect a shipment of 33 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis.
James was allegedly caught while retrieving the parcels of Loud, weighing 17.30 kilogrammes after the shipment had arrived at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) from the United States on December 24, 2024.
The NDLEA spokesman said the drugs arrived the country on a Delta Airline flight, concealed in wooden boxes.
He said NDLEA also arrested Khadijat Abdulraheem, 24, and Ayomide Morakinyo, 20, for producing and distributing drug-laced cupcakes in Ilorin, Kwara State on December 29, 2024.
Babafemi said authorities recovered 42 drugged cupcakes during a raid on their residence.
The statement reads, “In Kwara State, a fresh graduate, Khadijat Abdulraheem, 24, and a 20-year-old student of the University of Ilorin, Ayomide Morakinyo were on Sunday 29th December 2024 arrested by NDLEA operatives at Tanke University of Ilorin road, Oke Odo, Ilorin based on credible intelligence that they were producing and selling drug-laced cupcakes to students in the community.
”When their apartment was searched, 42 pieces of drugged cakes were recovered from them.”
