The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA announced on Sunday that it had killed Faith Ugochi, a prophet and founder of the Christ Power Worship Ministry in popular Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and celebrity couple
Igo Ubilibo and Daniel Simba Allen as teenagers. announced that he had killed a young man for soliciting him. A girl is a drug dealer.
Media and Advocacy Director Femi Babafemi said in her statement that the prophet and celebrity couple act as the arrowheads of an international illegal drug syndicate operating in Los Angeles, USA. I was.
He said: Agent Ukoh Ifeanyi Oguguo was quickly arrested, but further investigation led to the arrest of four other suspects of his. Obyom Shalom Chiamaka; Nochiri Chidinma Promise and Edward Omatsuai (aka Montana);
“A 15-year-old Faber was the first clerk to be arrested at a petrol station in the Aja area of Lagos. She then took the agent to a duplex lodging in the Ikate area of Lekki. The property was later discovered by a criminal group to be a rented apartment for her four girls, which the Syndicate uses to market and distribute illegal drugs.
``Another girl, Shalom, is a graduate student in the Department of Agriculture at Rivers State University of Science and Technology who was taken out of the house with Faber.
“When the agents found the house, other members of the syndicate broke into the store and took illegal substances.
"However, illegal drug paraphernalia such as sealing machines, blowing machines and packing bags were seized from the camp.
“A follow-up operation led to the arrest of Edward Omatseye at his residence around Lekki area. Edward confessed during interview to be working for Igho and his wife, Danielle, who are identified as the overall heads of the criminal group.
“Investigation was able to establish that Favour and Shalom were recruited as sales girls in the illicit drug trade by Prophetess Faith Ugochi of Christ Power Adoration Ministries, using her church platform to recruit teenage girls brought to her for help, on behalf of the celebrity couple:
Igho Ubiribo (aka Tiny) and Danielle Simba Allen (aka Dani), who are the owners of the business.
“Edward Omatseye (aka Montana) coordinates the illicit drug trade activities for them in Nigeria, with Nnochiri Chidinma Promise as representative of Ben Cargo Ltd, a freight company responsible for the shipment of illicit consignments into the country.
Noting that Nnochiri Chidinma Promise and Edward Omatseye (aka Montana) have already been charged to court and are currently facing trial at the Federal High Court, Lagos alongside Ben Cargo Ltd, a freight company which had been linked to two previous drug seizures and also involved in the current case, Babafemi said that several attempts to get Prophetess Faith Ugochi, Igho Ubiribo and Danielle Simba Allen submit themselves for questioning have proved abortive.
“On November 28, 2022, an invitation was sent to Lady Prophet Faith Ugoti of the Ministry of Christ Worship. 27 Anozie Street, Mile 2, Diobu, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. I was welcomed and supported by my mother
"After a long wait, on January 9, 2023, I received a reminder followed by a letter.
Likewise, invitations were sent to Igo Ubilibo and Daniel Simba Allen.
“Reminders were also sent when the couple showed no willingness to accept the initial invitation. Prophet Ugochi ran away from home and went into hiding, but continued his prophetic ministry on Facebook. However, the Igo-Daniel duo first sent a lawyer and pleaded once more to honor the invitation.
“Curiously, they hurriedly moved all funds traced to their company Lasgidi Backwood Ltd where all proceeds from the sales of illicit drugs were deposited into a private account of one Victor Imagoro.
“The Agency has since blocked the sum of Eighty Million Naira (N80,000,000) traced to the account and obtained a court order to seize all properties including a fuel station linked to the suspects in Lagos and Port Harcourt.
“The NDLEA has further sought and obtained an order of the Federal High Court Lagos to declare wanted the celebrity couple:
Ubiribo Igho and Danielle Allen, as the
arrowheads of the illicit trade as well as Prophetess Faith Ugochi, who recruits teenage girls as sales representatives for the duo”.
Meanwhile, the Agency in collaboration with other stakeholders including the Customs Service on Friday 31st March conducted a joint examination of two containers marked TRHU 4758549 and TRHU 6936803 where One Hundred and Forty-Three Million Eight Hundred Thousand (143,800,000 tablets) pills of Tramadol 225mg were discovered in 720 cartons weighing 10.3tons (10,386kgs).
The opioid pills, which were mixed with cartons of sweet were imported from India. The interception followed reliable information and cooperation from sister agencies.
Similarly, DOGI personnel intercepted a courier shipment of 1.5 kg of cocaine hidden in boxes allegedly containing hair cream, shampoo, curlers and burners. England.
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In Kaduna, on Monday 27 March, agents raided Dangwata village of Soba LGA and arrested Abdulrashid Musa, 33, with 142.8 kg of cannabis. Waja, 35, was also arrested during a follow-up investigation in Ligasa Kaduna after leaving behind 80,000 diazepam tablets weighing 13.4 kg.
On Friday 31 March, 63 bags of cannabis sativa weighing 600 kg were recovered from his Okpe village home in Akoko-Edo LGA. Abuja seized 80 bags of cannabis sativa weighing 842.4 kilograms on the same day. At Cross River, 12,000 Tramadol 225 mg tablets were seized from a female passenger, Talatu Sale Adamu, 46.
Suspect Abraham Araiguu was arrested Thursday, March 30, in the Slaughter in the Trans/Amadi area of Port Harcourt, Rivers with 91.7 kg of cannabis, while 228 kg of the same substance were recovered from Ayodel Osya, 35. was done. In a Toyota Camry car seized near the quarter guard area in Acre, Ondo.
Brigadier General Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), chairman/chief executive officer of the NDLEA, said MMIA officers and men were among the prophet's face Ugochi and celebrity couples, Igo Ubilibo and Daniel Simba Allen, and their other members. Kudos to the diligent research. cartel.
He assured that he would spare no effort to ensure that fleeing suspects would face the consequences of their actions.
He also thanked the staff of Apapa, DOGI, Edo, Cross River, Rivers, Kaduna, FCT and Ondo Agency Commands for their resilience, professionalism and excellent synergy with other security agencies in their areas of responsibility. .
He inspired her and her colleagues across the country to continue to raise the bar for their daily accomplishments.