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| Udiomeh Kufre Ita |
A Nigerian undergraduate student who used his tuition fee to buy hard
drug has been arrested for drug trafficking, the National Drug Law Enforcement
Agency said in a statement on Saturday.
NDLEA said the suspect, Udiomeh Kufre Ita, a student of the faculty of
Management Sciences at the Regent University in Ghana, was arrested at the
weekend at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. He was caught
with 1.745 kilogrammes of dried weeds that tested positive for cannabis
popularly called hemp.
"An undergraduate student was found in possession of two parcels
of cannabis weighing 1.745kg during routine search of passengers. The drug was
hidden inside his bag containing personal effects. He was immediately arrested
and the case is under investigation,” Hamza was quoted as saying.
“The suspect who
reportedly gained admission into the faculty of Management Sciences at the
Regent University is currently assisting narcotic investigators assigned to the
case,” NDLEA said in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Mitchell Ofoyeju.
In his confessional statement, Ita was quoted as saying that he used
his tuition fees in purchasing the drug found on him.
“I spent my school fees
on cell phone, smoking hemp and attending night clubs. I bought a cell phone
for N107,000 and spent my school fees recklessly. I thought I could make enough
profit from the sale of cannabis to offset the deficit in my tuition. I bought
each parcel of hemp for 220 Ghana cedi. I did not know what came over me and I
am afraid to go to my parents. My father is a retiree,” the suspect was quoted
as saying.
NDLEA said Ita hails from Akwa-Ibom State but grew up in the Federal
Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja.
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