The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it will arraign Anietie Okon Effiong, a pastor at Promise of Zion Church, Akwa Ibom, for his alleged connection to a drug smuggling ring.
The anti-drug agency said it has arrested two women — Hauwawu Bashiru and Basirat Adebisi Yahaya — linked to the pastor.
The NDLEA said the duo, arrested in Lagos, have been taken to Uyo, Akwa Ibom capital, to face charges alongside Effiong.
In a statement on Sunday, the NDLEA said the women are “linked to the attempt to export 90 kilograms of methamphetamine through Pastor Anietie Okon Effing of Promise of Zion Church, Oron, Akwa Ibom state, were equally arrested in Lagos and moved to Uyo to face charges along with the clergyman”.
The pastor was arrested on August 6 in connection to three drums of crystal methamphetamine believed to have been imported from India.
The NDLEA said the consignment, weighing 90 kilograms and loaded into a commercial bus with registration number RSH 691XC at Ojuelegba in Lagos, was intercepted during a stop and search operation along Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene highway.
According to the agency, the drugs were meant for onward delivery to Cameroon.