One of the kingpins who uses dual identities to aid his cross border movements, has a Nigerian passport with his original name: Onyekwonike Elochuckwu Sylvanus, 30, and that of Sierra Leone with a different name: Kargbo Mohamed Foday. He was intercepted by NDLEA officers with his Sierra Leonean passport on Sunday 2nd February 2025 at the Port Harcourt airport, Rivers state during the inward clearance of passengers on Qatar Airways flight from Doha through Abuja to Port Harcourt.
He was subsequently taken for body scan which confirmed he ingested illicit drugs and thereafter placed under excretion observation during which he expelled a total of 62 wraps of heroin in five excretions, weighing 1.348 kilograms.
Investigation reveals Onyekwonike Elochuckwu Sylvanus (alias Kargbo Mohamed Foday) alternates his two identities for different drug trafficking missions between Thailand, Pakistan, Iran and West African countries. He claimed to have gone full time into the illicit drug trade in 2017 when his clothing and shoe business went down.
The second kingpin, James Herbert Chinoso, 48, was arrested by NDLEA operatives at the Lagos airport on Saturday 1st February upon his arrival from Madagascar via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on an Ethiopian Airlines flight. After a body scan confirmed illicit drug in his system, he was placed under excretion observation during which he egested 63 wraps of heroin with a total weight of 909 grams.
Chinoso had left Lagos to Madagascar on 26th January 2025 and returned via Addis Ababa after spending a week. He claimed to have gone into the criminal trade after his phone accessories business in Liberia collapsed.
Two parcels of 2.82 kilograms of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis imported from the United States with Lagos as destination were equally intercepted by NDLEA operatives of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation, DOGI, at a courier firm in Lagos on Thursday 6th February. In another interdiction operation same day but in a different logistics company in Lagos, anti-narcotics officers intercepted 80 ampoules of pentazocine injection 225grams concealed in cartons heading to Canada.
from ndlea.org
Omo!.
ReplyDeleteBut these ones na mules na. No be king pins
True, they are the boys.
DeleteGo and Enjoy Jail
ReplyDeleteHello iya Boys
These people, they used drug trafficking to swear for them
ReplyDeleteThese are mules not kingpins. Good they were caught.
ReplyDeleteNawaoo oga you too try oo
ReplyDeleteOmo, we need to declare a national emergency, 98% of Nigerians arrested for drugs are from the land of the hardworking billionaires, they make the most noise about how Nigeria is so bad, they shout 'Nigeria is finished', 'there was a country', we need our candidate to clean the country, Yet they do drugs, produce fake drinks and medicine, do so much dirty stuff.
ReplyDeleteOther countries, SA, Ghana, Malaysia, India detest Nigeria cos of what some of these people do, Haba
Cos they’re the mules. You and I know where majority of the kingpins come from however , we don’t all reason from the end of a stick and so know that there are bad eggs everywhere . I’m sure majority of the Nigerian SME businesses in your area are by the same people you’re knocking. This is 2025, please try and change
DeleteLol @ Anon 14.08, so the kingpins conduct interviews to know the place of origin of their intended mules before giving them the job. how come its only people from a particular area that accept the job?
DeleteWhat a ridiculous attempt to divert attention from a very obvious fact
Good they were caught
ReplyDeleteThey should go and cool off in prison
He really looks rough for 30 yrs old. Muling will age you fast.
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