Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a wanted drug kingpin, Reginald Peter Chidiebere, who had been in hiding for thirteen years over alleged involvement in cocaine and heroin trafficking.

This was disclosed in a statement signed and released by the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday.

According to the statement, Chidiebere, who was first arrested in 2013 for importing cocaine into Nigeria, had been arraigned before Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court in Lagos but jumped bail shortly after and disappeared.

His name later resurfaced in February 2024 as one of the alleged masterminds behind the importation of forty-nine point seven kilogrannes of heroin from South Africa, intercepted by NDLEA officers at the import shed of the Lagos airport.

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