Illicit drugs: NDLEA hunts prophetess employing teenage sales girls National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has declared a Port Harcourt-based prophetess and founder of Christ Power Adoration Ministries, Faith Ugochi, as well as a celebrity couple, Igho Ubiribo and Danielle Allen, wanted for alleged drug trafficking and recruiting teenage girls into the illicit business.

The agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.

He said the suspects serve as arrowheads of an international syndicate operating from Los Angeles, United States of America.

According to Babafemi, the cartel’s illicit business was exposed when NDLEA operatives at the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos intercepted a consignment of 32.70Kg of Loud, a strong variant of cannabis concealed in cartons of used wears on Wednesday, November 16, 2022.

He noted that a freight agent, Ifeanyi Oguguo, was immediately arrested while further investigation led to the arrest of four more suspects, Chikodi Favour, Obiyom Chiamaka, Nnochiri Chidinma, and Edward Omatseye (aka Montana).

Babafemi said, “The 15-year-old Favour was the first sales girl to be arrested at a fuel station in the Ajah area of Lagos. She thereafter led the operatives to a duplex accommodation around the Ikate area of Lekki, which was later discovered to be a rented apartment by the criminal group purposely for four young girls that the syndicate uses for marketing and distribution of illicit drugs.

He added that a follow-up operation led to the arrest of one Edward Omatseye at his residence around Lekki, adding that Omatseye confessed to working for Igho and his wife, Danielle, who is identified as the overall heads of the criminal group.