Drug peddling: 5 Nigerians held in Bengaluru

The arrested have been identified as Zago Constant (32) and Ebele Ifekwu Ufearoah (53).

Update: 2017-05-28 20:57 GMT
The police arrested eight persons, five for selling calcium carbide, a banned substance used for ripening mangoes and three persons for selling illicit liquor. (Representational image)

Bengaluru: Five Nigerian nationals were arrested by the Central Crime Branch sleuths for drug peddling. The sleuths raided two houses in Vaddar-apalya in Hennur police station limits and Krishnappa Layout in Ramamurthynagar police station limits and arrested the accused with cocaine worth '18 lakh.

The arrested have been identified as Zago Constant (32) and Ebele Ifekwu Ufearoah (53). They were arrested from a rented house in Vaddarapalya. The CCB sleuths seized 51 gm of cocaine from them.

In another incident, the sleuths arrested Udogala Augustine Arinze (29), Ebuka Emmanuel Iweh (37) and Peter Nwabunwanne Okafor (26) from house in Krishnappa Layout with 117 gm of cocaine.

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