The people of Ahiaba Ubi community in the Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area of Abia State have called on the Abia State Police Command to ensure that they prosecute an alleged notorious drug kingpin arrested in the community last week.
Some community members alleged that the Violent Crime Response Unit (VCRU), Olokoro, on Thursday, September 17, 2026, arrested a notorious drug kingpin who has been terrorising their community.
According to them, they have been crying and writing petitions to several security agencies, including anti-drug authorities, but none had ever tried to effect the arrest of the suspect popularly known as ‘Oga C E’ or ‘Evergreen’, whom they said has introduced all sorts of violent crimes in their community.
The concerned indigenes of Ahiaba Ubi told Newsmen that they had to approach the following unconfirmed reports that some powerful people were trying to secure the release of ‘Mr Evergreen’ from detention at VCRU Olokoro, a move they said would endanger their own lives, especially some of them who aided the police to ensure his arrest.
They lamented that despite all pieces of evidence and the high volume of drugs he was arrested with, including methamphetamine (Mkpuru Mmiri), cocaine, tramadol and other prohibited substances, some powerful people are having a clandestine plot to secure his release and have him continue to terrorise them.
‘Activities of Mr Evergreen have turned the Ahiaba Ubi community and its environs into a criminal hideout for criminals that raped young ladies and robbed innocent citizens of their properties after taking those drugs.
‘The effects of these criminals’ activities have caused many youths around the affected communities to break into people’s houses, and stealing farm produce from innocent citizens, as some sold their aged parents’ properties, especially lands, to get money and keep taking those drugs.
‘The situation has become unbearable, and we can’t continue to fold our hands. Why are our youths being destroyed every day because of illicit drugs?
‘We’ve always told the police and all authorities that we’re ready to identify houses and hideouts of members of this syndicate for apprehension and possible prosecution.
‘Now that he has been apprehended, we are calling for his prosecution. Let the world know that such a person was arrested and prosecuted, to serve as a deterrent to others.
‘We’re pleading with the Abia State Police Command, especially our hardworking Commissioner of Police, to please save the people of Ahiaba Ubi by ensuring that only the law is obeyed and not the will of any man in this case,’ a member of the concerned indigenes of Ahiaba Ubi, who pleaded anonymity, said.