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Cocaine seized; Nigerian held

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A Nigerian national has been arrested by the Narcotics Branch of the Delhi police outside PVR Saket here on charges of supplying cocaine. The police claim to have recovered 16 gm of cocaine from his possession. Acting on a tip-off about a cocaine smuggling racket, the Narcotics Branch took up investigations and learnt that a drug peddler would come near PVR Saket to supply a consignment to a client on Monday. Subsequently a trap was laid and a Nigerian national was arrested with the stuff. He was identified as Ojini, a resident of Lagos.

During interrogation, Ojini purportedly disclosed that he came to India about six months ago and stayed for three months in Mumbai. There he came into contact with a drug trafficker, Tony, a resident of Togo, and began supplying cocaine at his instance. But due to a crackdown on drug traffickers in Mumbai following the arrest of a large number of people on charges of consuming drugs at a rave party in neighbouring Pune, Ojini fled to Delhi recently and started living in a Greater Kailash Part-II house. Here also, he began supplying cocaine provided by Tony. His clients in Delhi knew him by the codename "Darling Friend" and contacted him over his mobile phone for the stuff.

Ojini purportedly disclosed that back in Nigeria he worked as a mechanic. He then started working as a bus conductor in Lagos. He wanted to go to Germany in search of a job but was advised by a Lagos-based human smuggling agent to first visit India on a business-tourist visa and then proceed to Germany posing as a businessman. But when he went to Mumbai drug traffickers lured him into the trade saying he would make quick money. He also came across some persons committing credit card fraud. The police are planning to despatch a team to Mumbai in search of Tony .

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