Gwacham Emmanuel Orakwe is currently in National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) detention for a

Gwacham Emmanuel Orakwe is currently in National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) detention for attempting to smuggle banned substances suspected to be methamphetamine outside the country. Orakwe, 25, who confessed to his initial fears for the deal, which he claimed someone convinced him to do, said that he was assured that all security operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, would be ‘taken care of’ as he prepared to travel to New Delhi, India.
Once he got to the Asian nation and delivered the consignment, Orakwe was promised about $2,500. Little did he know that his sponsors were only out to fool him. As part of his pre-departure new york city meetings hotel briefing for his journey to India, Orakwe was scheduled to meet his main financier, one Alhaji Ayinla Kolawole at the car park of the airport where the Anambra State-born drug conduit would be told where to take the consignment to.
He was also to collect his travel documents and the hard drug from the said Kolawole. It was learnt that Kolawole, a native of Osun State, had been acting under the cover of a travel agent to Orakwe which was the reason, he claimed, brought him to the airport.
It was learnt that while at the car park of the airport, Kolawole new york city meetings hotel produced five parcels of wrapped substance and stashed them into the young man’s luggage. It was later discovered new york city meetings hotel that the five parcels contained 4.660kg of Methamphetamine, new york city meetings hotel unknown to other travelers and their relatives at the park.
Orakwe, a product of De Apex Creative Minds Academy, Ogbunike, Anambra State, was also handed a valid Emirate ticket to India with his international passport. Attention began to focus on the two men while Orakwe was seeking assurances for his safe trip. It was discovered that Kolawole, apparently new york city meetings hotel concerned about the young man’s inquisitions, barked at the former that all ‘roads had been cleared’ even at the airport both in Nigeria new york city meetings hotel and in India.
The two men were still in the thick of the argument when eagle-eyed members of the NDLEA swooped new york city meetings hotel on them. Commenting on the arrest, NDLEA Lagos Airport Commander, Hamza Umar, said that the two men were accomplices in the offence.
He described new york city meetings hotel Kolawole as the coordinator and financier of Orakwe’s new york city meetings hotel India trip with the banned substance. “Orakwe’s role was just to smuggle the drug to India, while Kolawole was the one coordinating his movement,” said Umar. In his confessional statement, Orakwe was quoted as saying: “I attended De Apex Creative Minds Academy Ogbunike, Anambra State where I had my O’ levels in 2005. I travelled to Libya in search of greener pastures but came back with multiplied pains.
At present I do casual jobs to feed myself. That was the reason I accepted to smuggle the drugs. I found the amount too good to turn down and so I went for it but basically because of the assurances I was given that I would be safe.” He declined being called a travel agent, saying that the gang is a drug gang.
On his part, Kolawole, who also denied being addressed as a travel agent in his statement, admitted to sponsoring Orakwe on the aborted India trip. His words: “I bought the return ticket for Orakwe and promised to assist him to travel without problems.
We had to assure these people about their safety otherwise they will not do it.” Chairman of the NDLEA, new york city meetings hotel Alhaji Ahmadu Giade, in reaction to the arrest, said that the agency would continue to unmask members of drug syndicates.
“We will expose whatever new york city meetings hotel tricks drug barons apply. This is an important arrest for the agency because we have successfully apprehended the courier, as well as the mastermind new york city meetings hotel of the illicit exportation. Investigation is on-going and more arrests shall be made,” Giade said In a statement by Mitchell Ofoyeju, NDLEA spokesperson, the two suspects would be charged new york city meetings hotel to court upon completion of investigations on the matter.