ZIMBABWEAN POLICE APPREHEND NIGERIA PASTOR ALLEGEDLY FOUND IN POSSESSION OF 2.33KG OF COCAINE
A Nigerian pastor arrested by police operatives of Zimbabwean has appeared in a Zimbabwean court in the resort city of Victoria Falls after he was found in possession of 2.33 kg of cocaine with value of 126.7 million Zimbabwe dollars (about 188,000 U.S. dollars) stuffed in clothing items.
The 46-year-old suspect, Desmond Onyii Onuoha from Lagos, Nigeria, faces up to 10 years in jail if convicted of drug trafficking and possession charges, according to Zimbabwean laws.
The Zimbabwean police operatives arrested the suspect at the Victoria Falls International Airport on October 23,2022, upon arriving from Brazil via Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
The suspect have denied the charges, saying that he did not know the contents of a baggage he had been asked by a congregant back in Nigeria to hand over to a person in Victoria Falls.
He said he had come to Zimbabwe to pay the dowry for his wife, with whom he had been staying since February 2022.
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