MANILA, Philippines — Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested three Nigerians in two separate drug busts in Cavite on Monday night and seized some P10.8 million worth of “shabu” (crystal meth) and marijuana.
The PDEA agents and police arrested Benjamin Enemuo, 28; Chidubem Nwonu, 22; and Ifeañyi Ofoma, 22. The PDEA said the first buy-bust operation was conducted at 9 p.m., Monday, in Barangay Navarro, General Trias City, and resulted in the arrest of Enemuo and Nwonu.
The suspects yielded a kilogram of shabu worth an estimated P6.8 million. Around 11:30 p.m., a second sting operation was conducted in Barangay Bacao I, General Trias City, which resulted in Ofoma’s arrest.
Ofoma yielded some 5,000 grams of marijuana worth P600,000; 500 grams of shabu worth some P3.4 million; and a digital weighing scale. —Jeannette I. Andrade